A FINDING AID TO RECORDS AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES AT

COLLEGE PARK

PREPARED BY

DR. GREG BRADSHER

NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION

COLLEGE PARK, MARYLAND

FOR

THE INTERAGENCY GROUP ON NAZI ASSETS

DIRECTED BY STUART E. EIZENSTAT, UNDER SECRETARY OF

COMMERCE,

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
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CONTENTS

PREFACE ......................................................................................................................VI

Purpose of the Finding Aid ...................................................................................................................................... vii

The National Archives and Records Administration and Archival Records ...................................................... viii

Arrangement of Archival Records.......................................................................................................................... viii

Introduction to the Finding Aid................................................................................................................................ ix

Access to the Records...................................................................................................................................................x

Security Classified Records and Declassification at NARA ................................................................................... xi

Declassification of Nazi Gold Related Records at NARA....................................................................................... xi

Acknowledgments ..................................................................................................................................................... xii

MILITARY RECORDS..................................................................................................... 1

Interallied and Interservice Military Agencies Records.......................................................................................... 1

Records of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff (RG 218).................................................................................................. 1

Records of the Office of Strategic Services (RG 226).............................................................................................. 3

The War Department and the Army Records ........................................................................................................ 17

Records of the Office of the Secretary of War (RG 107) ....................................................................................... 17

Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs (RG 165) .................................................................. 24

Records of the Army Staff (RG 319)..................................................................................................................... 33

Records of the Adjutant General’s Office, 1917- (RG 407) ................................................................................. 43

Theaters of Operations Records .............................................................................................................................. 47

Records of Allied Operational and Occupation Headquarters, World War II (RG 331) ........................................ 47

Records of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF)......................................................... 47

Records of the General Headquarters Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (GHQ SCAP) ................... 48

Records of Allied Forces Headquarters.............................................................................................................. 48

Records of the Allied Military Government, British-United States Zone Free Territory of Trieste................... 50

Records of United States Army Commands, 1942- (RG 338) .............................................................................. 50

Records of U.S. Occupation Headquarters, World War II (RG 260) ..................................................................... 53

Records of the Office of the Military Governor, United States (OMGUS) ........................................................ 53

Records of the U.S. Allied Commission for Austria (USACA) Section of Headquarters, U.S. Forces in

Austria................................................................................................................................................................ 78

The Naval Establishment Records........................................................................................................................... 79

Records of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (RG 38)........................................................................... 79

Captured Records ..................................................................................................................................................... 83

National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized (RG 242) ...................................................................... 83

War Crimes Records................................................................................................................................................. 85

National Archives Collection of World War II War Crimes Records (RG 238) .................................................... 85

CIVILIAN AGENCY RECORDS.................................................................................... 87

Department of State and Foreign Affairs Records................................................................................................. 87

General Records of the Department of State (RG 59) ............................................................................................ 87

Central File Records........................................................................................................................................... 87

Records of Under Secretary Dean Acheson ....................................................................................................... 93
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Records of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees ............................................................................... 95

Records of the Division of Defense Materials.................................................................................................... 95

Records of the Office of Intelligence.................................................................................................................. 96

Records of the Division of World Trade Intelligence and Its Successor, Division of Economic Security

Controls.............................................................................................................................................................. 97

Records of the Office of Economic Security Policy........................................................................................... 97

Records of the Division of Economic Security Controls.................................................................................... 98

Records of the Economic Affairs Branch........................................................................................................... 98

Records of the Office of Financial Operations ................................................................................................... 99

Records of The Legal Adviser.......................................................................................................................... 103

Records of the Special Interrogation Mission to Germany, 1945-1946 ........................................................... 109

Records of the Pauley Reparations Missions, 1945-1948 (Lot File M-17 & M-18) ....................................... 112

Records of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of State for Occupied Areas, 1946-1949.............................. 113

Records of the Bureau of European Affairs ..................................................................................................... 113

Records of the Office of American Republic Affairs, Its Predecessors, andIts Successors.............................. 118

Records of the Foreign Service Posts of the Department of State (RG 84) .......................................................... 120

Records of Interdepartmental and Intradepartmental Committees (State Department) (RG 353) ........................ 139

Records of the Secretary of State’s Staff Committee, 1944-1947 .................................................................... 139

Records of the European Neutrals Committee, 1945-1946 .............................................................................. 141

Records of the Executive Committee of Economic Foreign Policy.................................................................. 141

Records of the Economic Warfare Planning Committee .................................................................................. 141

Records of the Division of World Trade Intelligence and its Successor, Division of Economic Security

Controls............................................................................................................................................................ 142

Records of the State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee ............................................................................... 145

Records of the American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments

in War Areas (RG 239)......................................................................................................................................... 145

Records of the Foreign Economic Administration (RG 169)................................................................................ 146

Records of the Office of Inter-American Affairs (RG 229).................................................................................. 167

Records of the High Commissioner for Germany (HICOG) (RG 466)................................................................. 168

Records of International Conferences, Commissions, and Expositions (RG 43).................................................. 172

Records Relating to the Paris Conference on Reparations ............................................................................... 172

Records of Meetings of the Ccouncil of Foreign Ministers and Related Conferences ..................................... 174

Subject and Working Files of Jacques J. Reinstein, 1945-1951....................................................................... 180

Department of the Treasury Records.................................................................................................................... 187

Records of the Department of the Treasury (RG 56)............................................................................................ 187

Records of Office of Foreign Assets Control (RG 265)........................................................................................ 205

Department of Justice Records .............................................................................................................................. 212

General Records of the Department of Justice (RG 60) ....................................................................................... 212

Records of the Office of Alien Property (RG 131)............................................................................................. 216

Records of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States (RG 299) ...................................... 227

Records of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (RG 65) ..................................................................................... 230

Department of Commerce Records ....................................................................................................................... 231

Records of the Department of Commerce (RG 40)............................................................................................... 231

Records of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce (RG 151)................................................................ 231

Other Agency Records............................................................................................................................................ 231

Records of the Office of War Information (RG 208)............................................................................................ 231

Records of the Office of Censorship (RG 216)..................................................................................................... 233

Records of the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service (RG 262)........................................................................ 241

Records of the Central Intelligence Agency (RG 263) ......................................................................................... 242
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Records of the Federal Reserve System (RG 82).................................................................................................. 243

Index of Items Pertaining to Nazi-Related Assets in the Federal Reserve Board Records Accessioned

Into the National Archives................................................................................................................................ 243

Gift Collection Records (RG 200).......................................................................................................................... 271
PREFACE

This finding aid was prepared for the Interagency Group on Nazi Assets, directed by Ambassador

Stuart E. Eizenstat, the Under Secretary of Commerce. The finding aid is part of a report for the

Interagency Group on Nazi Assets that was prepared under the direction of Dr. William Z. Slany,

Chief Historian of the Department of State.

Development of this finding aid actually predated the Interagency Group on Nazi Assets,

beginning in early April 1996, when researchers began asking about our holdings relating to Swiss

banks. The Archives II Textual Reference Branch staff was canvassed and a ten-page finding aid

was produced by the preparer of this finding aid. It was made available to researchers on April 19,

1996. It identified the records in a half-dozen record groups and identified pertinent series of

records. For the next six months an increasing number of researchers desired more information

and, thus, the initial finding aid was periodically updated. Then in November 1996, with

increased interest in the multitude of questions relating to Nazi looted assets, particularly gold, and

the creation of the Interagency Group on Nazi Assets, increased attention was devoted to

expanding the finding aid. The present version, prepared for the Interagency Group on Nazi

Assets, is not the end of NARA’s efforts to provide “ready access to essential evidence.” As time

permits and researcher interest continues this finding aid will be periodically updated.

Purpose of the Finding Aid

The purpose of this finding aid is to assist researchers locating within the National Archives at

College Park those records that pertain not only to the subject matter of the report but also to those

records relating to the broader subjects listed in the title to the finding aid.

Specifically, the finding aid provides a guide to records pertaining to:

• efforts in 1940-1942 to freeze, block, and seize Axis and other assets located in the United

States;

• efforts, in conjunction with the Allies, during the 1942-1944 period, to blockade the Axis to

prevent them from obtaining the resources necessary to wage war;

• efforts during 1944 and 1945, to prevent the Axis from secreting and cloaking their assets in

neutral and other countries (i.e., the Safehaven Program);

• efforts in 1945 and in the aftermath of the war to locate looted and other Axis assets;

• The U.S. postwar role in restitution and reparation activities; and,

• The U.S. diplomatic efforts to work with the neutral countries to obtain the return of and

disposition of Axis looted assets as well as other enemy assets.

This finding aid is by no means comprehensive, given the wealth of the holdings of the National

Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and given the time constraints in its preparation. 

There are, most likely, other series of records within the Record Groups mentioned as well as 

series in Record Groups not mentioned that contain information about World War II economic

warfare, Nazi looted assets, Safehaven Program activities, post-war restitution and reparation

activities, and the financial and diplomatic aftermath of the war. There is also a possibility that

some pertinent records are still in the legal custody of one or more Federal agencies. This finding

aid, nevertheless, should provide researchers with a relatively full guide to the archival records in

College Park and give clues where other material may be held.
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Primary attention in this finding aid is given to records pertaining to activities in North America,

Europe, and Latin America. Relatively minor attention is given to records relating to Africa, Asia,

the Near East, and the Middle East. Researchers should be aware that NARA holds a substantial

quantity of records relating to the just-mentioned geographic areas with regard to World War II

economic warfare and the financial and diplomatic aftermath of the war.

Not all aspects of economic warfare are directly addressed in this finding aid. Primary attention is

given to the financial and diplomatic aspects of economic warfare. Nevertheless the finding aid

directly and indirectly identifies records or series of records on other aspects of economic warfare,

such as preclusive buying, lend-lease, reverse lend-lease, and efforts by the Allies to prevent the

Axis powers from obtaining military supplies and economic resources to feed their industrial and

war machines. Additionally because of researcher interest in financial matters the finding aid

concentrates on records relating to financial matters. If researcher interests broaden to include

looting and cloaking of cultural materials, a subsequent version of this finding aid would certainly

identify applicable records. Nevertheless, many records relating to cultural materials are included

in this finding aid, and researchers should be aware that NARA holds a substantial quantity of

records relating to looting, cloaking, and restitution of cultural materials.

It is noteworthy that there are very few records in the holdings of the National Archives at College

Park that pertain to the personal assets of foreign individuals in foreign banks. The U.S.

Government in the 1930s and 1940s did not systematically collect that information. We know that

there are scattered among our records, such as the Office of Strategic Services records, and

Foreign Funds Control records, information that does relate to individual accounts in foreign

banks. But the quantity uncovered by researchers during the past year so far is minuscule. 

Researchers interested in possible assets in foreign banks should directly contact the bank. If

researchers wish to make a claim on dormant accounts in Swiss banks, please contact:

Ombudsman of Swiss Banks, Seestr.7, P.O. Box 519, 8027 Zurich, Switzerland. Applicants must

write a short letter asking for the dormant account questionnaire. The Ombudsman’s office also

can reached by fax at 011-41-1-281-1083 or telephone at 011-41-1-281-1037. For additional

information about dormant accounts, please contact the Swiss Embassy at 202-745-7900 (phone)

or 202-387-2564 (fax).

The National Archives and Records Administration and Archival Records

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) acquires, preserves, and makes

available for research records of enduring value created or received by organizations of the

executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the Federal Government. A relatively substantial

amount of the NARA holdings relate to World War II and are held in its facility in College Park,

Maryland. Other NARA facilities hold many records and donated material related to World War

II, including records related to the subjects covered in this finding aid. This is particularly true of

the Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Harry S Truman, and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential

Libraries. Researchers should contact the other NARA facilities for assistance in their research

efforts.

Arrangement of Archival Records

NARA arranges its holdings according to the archival principle of “provenance.” This principle

provides that records be attributed to the agency that created or maintained them and arranged

thereunder as they were filed when in active use. In the National Archives, application of the

principle of provenance takes the form of numbered record groups, with each record group

comprising the records of a major government entity, usually a bureau of an independent agency. 
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Most record groups include records of any predecessors of the organization named in the title of

the record group. A few record groups combine the records of several small or short-lived

agencies having an administrative or functional relationship with each other. 

Within a record group, the records of a government agency are organized into series. Each series

is a set of documents arranged according to the creating office’s filing system or otherwise kept

together by the creating office because they related to a particular subject or function, result from

the same activity, document a specific kind of transaction, take a particular physical form, or have

some other relationship arising out of their creation, receipt, or use.

NARA endeavors to keep records in the order in which they were maintained by the creating

agency, in the belief that this best preserves their integrity and interrelationships. The agency

filing systems were designed for administrative purposes and not for the benefit of future

researchers. This finding aid seeks to assist subject-oriented researchers in understanding the

complexities of the recordkeeping systems and in locating relevant material among the vast

quantities of records.

Introduction to the Finding Aid

This finding aid is divided into three parts--the records of military agencies, records of civilian

agencies, and records in the National Archives Gift Collection. The latter are subdivided by the

individual who donated their personal papers to NARA. The military and civilian agency sections

of the finding aid are subdivided by Federal agency and then by Record Group.

Within each Record Group the descriptions of the records are, for the most part, in a hierarchial

order. For each series of records a Series Title is provided. In most instances the date span of the

series is provided as well as the series entry number. In many instances an arrangement statement

and full description of the records in the series is provided. When applicable, the total number of

boxes in the series is given along with the beginning location of the series. Where specific boxes

are identified, the exact box location is provided. When a folder or file title in a particular box or

boxes of a series is given, the term “File Title” is used to indicate only certain file titles are

identified; when all the files in a box or series are given then the term “File Titles” is used.

The location of each series of records at Archives II at College Park, Maryland, is provided, with

the stack area, the row, the compartment, and the shelf where the series begins. When specific

boxes are indicated, generally the exact location of the box or boxes is given. Thus a location of

450/34/7/01 would mean stack area 450, row 34, compartment 7, and shelf 1. There is one

exception to this general guidance. The newly accessioned Department of Treasury records,

mainly from the predecessor offices of the Office of International Affairs, have been declassified

and moved to an unclassified stack area. To make the pertinent records more accessible we have

moved many boxes, including those of several other Federal agencies, to the Textual Research

Room (Room 2000) hold area. Thus the location for these newly declassified records is the

Compartment Number. Also provided is the original stack location. For example: 

Compartment 6 [450/34/33/01].

Records in stack 631, as a general rule, are classified. As they are declassified,

they are being moved to nonclassified stack areas. Thus, researchers should check with

the staff to determine whether records identified as being in stack 631 are still classified or

have been moved to a new location.
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Access to the Records

Almost all of the records described in this finding aid are located in the Archives II building in

College Park, Maryland. The records are serviced by the Textual Reference Division. The

Division’s Archives II Textual Reference Branch assists researchers in locating records and the

Division’s Archives II User Services Branch assists researchers in the research room. Some of the

records are microfilmed as NARA microfilm publications and those records are self-service.

These microfilm publications are located in Room 4050 of the Archives II Building. Other NARA

facilities have copies of many of these microfilm publications.

To contact the Textual Reference Branch about our holdings or to request records please call 301-

713-7250 and ask to speak to either a military records archivist or a civilian agency records

archivist depending upon the records in which you are interested. Please be as specific as possible

so you may be directed to an appropriate staff member.

If you would like to write us, please do so at the following address: Archives II Textual Reference

Branch (NWDT2), Textual Reference Division, Office of Records Services-Washington, Room

2400, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001.

Newly accessioned Department of the Treasury records have been declassified and moved to an

unclassified stack area. To make the pertinent Department of the Treasury records, as well as the

records from several other Record Groups, more accessible we have moved many pertinent boxes

of records to the Textual Research Room (Room 2000) hold area. Thus the location for these

newly declassified records is the “Research Room Hold Area,” with the Compartment Number

provided as well as their original stack location. Records from other Record Groups have been

and will be moved to the Research Room Hold Area. Special access procedures apply to these

records. Specifically, on December 11, 1996, Clarence F. Lyons, Jr., Chief of the Archives II

Textual Reference Branch, issued the following procedural instructions:

1. Many of the most frequently requested records will be placed in a location near the research

room for easy retrieval by research room staff. These records are identified in the NARA finding

aid for records relating to Safehaven and the Swiss banks. For a copy of the finding aid, please

contact Carolyn Powell in the Textual Research Room (Room 2000).

2. Researchers may request these records at any time during the day. These pulls are not limited to

the normal record pull schedule.

3. A researcher may charge out ONE box of these records at a time. When the box is returned to

the research room attendant, a researcher may request and charge out another box.

4. A researcher may charge out a box for ONE day only. All boxes must be returned by the end of

the day.

5. Requests for these records must be made in person. Records may not be reserved in advance.

6. These procedures apply only to those records moved to the proximity of the Textual Research

Room. Other records in their stack location will be pulled according to the usual pull schedule and

remain subject to established research room procedures.

Mr. Lyons, in issuing these instructions, indicated that “these procedures are designed to meet the

heavy demand for these records from many parties and ensure all interested researchers [receive]

equal access to the materials.”
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Security Classified Records and Declassification at NARA

Most of the records described in this finding aid are readily available, and researchers are not

required to make arrangements in advance to consult them. Some records, however, remain closed

subject to national security restrictions or warrant withholding for reasons of personal privacy or

because of specific statutes.

Many records described in this finding aid were never security classified. Many other formerly

security-classified records were declassified by Federal agency personnel prior to 1973; either

before or after the records were transferred to NARA’s legal custody. During the past 24 years

NARA has expended considerable resources to declassify security-classified records, including

records described in this finding aid.

Because of some misunderstandings about when and how NARA declassified records Marvin

Russell of the Declassification and Initial Processing Division, prepared the following information:

Declassification of Nazi Gold Related Records at NARA

Systematic declassification review began at the National Archives and Records Administration

(NARA) under Executive Order 11652 issued on March 8, 1972. Under previous Executive

Orders, NARA could declassify records only by referring each individual document back to its

creating agency. By 1972, the growing volume of World War II documents retired to NARA had

overwhelmed that system. E.O. 11652 addressed the problem by requiring NARA to

systematically review for declassification all its World War II holdings. NARA established a

declassification unit and, in 1973, began systematic declassification review. By 1978, NARA had

declassified almost all World War II records then at NARA. E.O. 11652 also required the review

of all other documents that were 30 years old or older. NARA had declassified many of these by

1978 as well.

Executive Order 12065 issued on June 28, 1978, reduced the declassification review period from

30 years to 20 years and required all agencies to begin systematic declassification review of

records still in their custody. NARA greatly expanded its declassification staff to meet the 20 year

goal, and most agencies made some effort to meet the declassification review requirement. By

April 2, 1982, when E.0. 12356 raised the declassification period back to 30 years and dropped the

requirement that all agencies have declassification programs, almost all records relating to the

“Nazi Gold” issue had been declassified either by NARA or by the creating agencies.

Other “Nazi Gold” related records were transferred to NARA in 1994 and 1995 when the new

building in College Park opened and a freeze on transfers from the agencies ended. Most of these

older records were either already declassified by the creating agencies or were easily declassified

by NARA staff.

Determining the exact date when a specific document in NARA was declassified is not easy. In

systematic reviews, NARA has always had an exemption to the requirement that every document

be individually stamped at the time of declassification. Instead, NARA labels boxes with a

collective authority covering all the documents in the box. That authority may represent an actual

declassification decision by NARA, or it may merely confirm that the creating agency properly

declassified the documents before shipment to NARA. In many cases, the authority covers a

combination of both.

After some early experimentation, NARA now uses a six-digit case number as the standard

authority for the box label. The first two digits of this number are the Fiscal Year in which the

case was assigned, but the case may cover documents which were declassified years earlier. For
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example, the Department of Justice transferred a large collection of Nazi gold related material

from the Office of Alien Property to NARA in 1994. The NARA declassification unit determined

after examining the history of these files that they had been declassified prior to their original

retirement to the Washington National Records Center in the 1950’s. Thus, while the boxes bear

labels with an FY 1996 case number, the records themselves have been declassified for 40 years.

The government-wide security requirement that a declassified document be stamped with the date

of the declassification “action” adds to the confusion of declassification dates. If an archivist

decides to stamp an original document, the “action” is the stamping, and the date is the date he or

she applies the stamp. To use any other date compromises the archival integrity of the document. 

Everyone who saw the document before that date would have seen a document without a

declassification stamp. Thus, the date of the declassification stamping is a fundamental part of the

document and cannot be falsified. Similarly, the “action” date for copies of unstamped

declassified documents is the date they are made. This is the date applied to the documents or to

the slugs placed on the self-copiers in the research rooms.

Addressing specifically “Nazi Gold” related records, a NARA official recently estimated that

approximately 50 percent of the relevant records were never even classified. A second estimate,

based primarily on the general declassification history of record groups known to contain “Nazi

Gold” related records, held that of those that were once classified, approximately 75 percent were

declassified by 1982, 15 percent were declassified in 1982-1989, 5 percent in 1990-1994, and 5

percent in 1995-1997.

Acknowledgments

Without the help and support of numerous NARA staff, researchers, and others, this finding aid

would not be as complete as it is. Clarence F. Lyons, Jr., the Branch Chief of the Archives II

Textual Reference Branch and R. Michael McReynolds, the Director of the Textual Reference

Division, encouraged and supported my efforts to produce the finding aid, allowing me the time to

work on it at the expense of other Branch and Division goals and responsibilities. Michael J.

Kurtz, Assistant Archivist of Records Services-Washington DC, not only allowed me the time to

serve on the Interagency Group, but gave his full support to the effort to ensure that NARA could

produce a useful finding aid in a short period of time. He assigned resources to ensure that newly

accessioned records were declassified and made available to researchers in an expeditious manner.

 Realizing the importance of the mission of the Interagency Group on Nazi Assets, the issues

surrounding the subject matter of this finding aid, and NARA’s mission of making records

available to researchers, John W. Carlin, Archivist of the United States, fully supported our effort

to provide “ready access to essential evidence.”

Numerous Archives II Textual Reference Branch staff members assisted me in uncovering

pertinent series of records. Among those making a contribution to this finding aid are Rich

Boylan, Robin Cookson, Rebecca L. Collier, Eric Frewald, Maria T. Hanna, Ken Heger, Wil

Mahoney, Marty McGann, Tim Nenninger, Dave Pfeiffer, Ken Schlessinger, Amy Schmidt, John

Taylor, Bill Walsh, Barry Zerby, and Milton Gustafson. The latter was kind enough to provide

text on the Department of State Decimal File and to provide decimal file numbers and specific

boxes.

Wayne DeCeaser of the Archives II Textual Reference Branch and Alan Puglia of the Preservation

Policy and Services Division helped identify pertinent newly accessioned Department of the

Treasury records and assist in their movement to a more accessible location for researchers. Alan

Puglia also assisted in the identification of specific boxes in the Records of the Office of Alien

Property. Erick Chaskes of the Archives II User Services Branch helped to identify some
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Department of State specific interrogation reports and identified boxes for specific Foreign

Economic Administration files. Our two Eleanor Roosevelt High School interns, Mollie Karpman

and Alexis Capili, created box and folder lists for over a half-dozen series of records within the

Records of the Office of Military Governor, United States (OMGUS), and they also provided

specific box numbers for certain records within the Records of the Foreign Economic

Administration.

Tim Mulligan of the Declassification and Initial Processing Division graciously provided me with

his yet unpublished guide to World War II military intelligence records in the National Archives. 

His finding aid speeded up my process of identifying useful series of records that are described in

this finding aid. 

Geraldine Phillips, Deputy Assistant Archivist and Chief of Staff for the Office of Records

Services-Washington, D.C., Jeanne Schauble, Director of the Declassification and Initial

Processing Division, Ron Swerczek, a supervisory archivist with the Declassification and Initial

Processing Division, and a team of declassifiers under the direction of Marvin Russell and Dick

Wood did yeoman work to accession, declassify, and relocate to an unclassified stack area, a

significant body of Department of the Treasury records during November and December 1996 and

January 1997. The team included: Tom Haughton, Crystal Dodd, Steve Hamilton, Tim Nell, Tim

Willard, and Jeannine Swift. Gerald Cerny of the Declassification and Initial Processing Division

and the Department of State reviewers of the 1950-1954 segment of the Decimal File of the

Department of State were kind enough to identify specific files of interest for researchers.

A thank you needs to be made to several researchers. Mia Waller pointed out some specific Office

of Strategic Services records and Kevin Mahoney and Sidney Zabludoff provided insights into the

Records of the Office of Military Governor, United States (OMGUS). Willi Korte in the Spring

of 1996, identified the need for NARA to accession important Department of the Treasury records.

 Those records were accessioned by NARA in November 1996. Sarah Robinson and Kelsey

Libner were kind enough to point out errors in earlier drafts of this finding aid. Miriam A.

Kleiman provided timely information about the fruits of her substantial research efforts, and was

always a source of encouragement. The same can be said of numerous other researchers, including

the teams of researchers representing the World Jewish Congress and Senator Alfonse D’Amato’s

office.

Alan Kovan of the Washington National Records Center in Suitland, Maryland and Jackie Fultz of

the Office of Records Services-Washington DC, provided me with information about certain

holdings of the Washington National Records Center and the disposition of specific records. 

Jimmy Rush of the Archives II Textual Reference Branch provided computer assistance and Mary

DeGeorge helped with the paper-to-paper copying tasks. Sharon Thibodeau, the Director of

Records Control and Product Management Staff offered several useful suggestions regarding the

style for this finding aid. Katherine Coram of the Records Control and Product Management Staff

reviewed the text to identify errors. Lida H. Churchville, Chief of the National Archives Library

Branch, provided me with news clips off the Internet regarding press interest in the subject matter.

 The staff of the National Archives Library has been a great help identifying secondary sources as

well as government publications. John Taylor of the Archives II Textual Reference Branch kept

me abreast of researchers’ interests. Susan Cooper and Giuliana Bullard of the Public Affairs

Office were kind enough to keep me posted on media interests.

Dr. David Vogelsanger, the Political Affairs Officer of the Embassy of Switzerland, was kind

enough to provide me with a copy of a Swiss Archives-produced finding aid to relevant records in

that archives, as well as other materials. Dr. Linus von Castelmur, with the Swiss Federal

Department of Foreign Affairs and a member of the Swiss Interagency Task Force, graciously
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presented me with a copy of his book on the diplomatic aftermath of World War II.

A thanks needs to be made to the Archives II Textual Reference Branch as a whole for their efforts

to readily make records available to researchers. Joining our branch in efforts to provide timely

and accurate access to relevant records has been the staff of the Archives II User Services Branch,

especially its chief, Bob Coren, and Calvin Jefferson, Carolyn Powell, and staff members who

have serviced the records in the Research Room Hold Area.

And a final thanks needs to be made to past and present NARA staff who produced many useful

finding aids to many of the records described in this finding aid.

Undoubtedly mistakes have been made in the information provided in this finding aid. Also there

may be individual documents, file folders, and series of records that should be included in future

updates of this finding aid. Please bring to my attention any corrections, modifications, additions,

or deletions that need to be made. I can be reached in Archives II, Room 2405 or by phone 301-

713-7250 or by fax 301-713-7482.

Greg Bradsher

Assistant Chief, Archives II Textual Reference Branch

Textual Reference Division

Office of Records Services-Washington D.C.

National Archives and Records Administration
MILITARY RECORDS

Many of the military records for the 1917-1962 period are arranged by the War Department Decimal File

classification scheme. When encountering series of records arranged by this file system researchers may

want to consult a copy of a War Department Decimal File System book, available in the consultation

area in Room 2400. The decimals that often relate to the subjects of this finding aid are:

Decimal Title

004.2 Banks and banking

091 Countries

091.1 Government

091.11 Officials

091.3 Economics

095 Commercial firms and persons

123 Funds, money, and savings

314.4 Captured records

314.7 Military histories

332.3 Personal property

334 Boards, commissions, committee, council, and missions

383 Conduct of war with relation to commercial firms and persons

383.8 Commercial firms, blacklisted, enemy trading, price control, and

profiteering

386 Property Rights involved in war

386.3 Captured property

386.7 Frozen assets, including funds

Interallied and Interservice Military Agencies Records

Records of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff (RG 218)

The United States Joint Chiefs of Staff, known also as JCS, was created as a result of the decision made

during the Anglo-American military staff conference in Washington, December 1941-January 1942, to

establish the Combined Chiefs of Staff. The Joint Chiefs of Staff became the United States representatives

on the Combined Chiefs of Staff. In addition to the foregoing role, the JCS became the principal United

States agency for coordination between the Army and the Navy.

The first meeting of the JCS as an organized body was held on February 9, 1942. Its original members

were the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral H.R. Stark; the Chief of Staff of the United States Army,

General George C. Marshall; the Commander in Chief of the United States Fleet, Admiral Ernest J. King;

and the Commanding General of the Army Air Forces, Lt. General Henry H. Arnold. In March 1942, the

duties of the Chief of Naval Operations and of the Commander in Chief of the United States Fleet were

combined in one person, Admiral King, thus reducing the membership of the JCS to three; but in July a

fourth member was again provided, namely Admiral William D. Leahy, the newly appointed Chief of Staff

to the President in respect to the latter’s role as Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy.

The functions and duties of the JCS were not formally defined during the war period. The absence of any

written definition of duties allowed great flexibility or organization and the extension of activities in

accordance with the requirements of the war.

During the war period the Joint Chiefs of Staff existed informally on the basis of its continuing functions. 

It was given legislative recognition as a permanent agency, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, by the National

Security Act of 1947. 
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Central Decimal Files 1942-1945 (Entry 1)

Box # Decimal # and File Title

17 004 (8-2-45) Investigation of I.G. Farben Industries Activities

004.2 (5-19-45) Gold Deposits at Bank for International Settlements, Basle,

Switzerland1

 location: 190/1/1/03

27 091.1 (3-12-45) Seizure of German Embassies, etc. in Neutral Countries.

location: 190/1/1/04

28 091.112 (6-17-44) Treatment of diplomats of neutral countries in Rome.

location: 190/1/1/04

29 091.31 (10-30-43) JCS [Joint Chiefs of Staff] Policy studies on Trade Relations

with Neutral Countries location: 190/1/1/05

091.31 (9-30-43) Swiss Aid to Germany location: 190/1/1/05

177 334 (10-8-44) Activities of combined economic warfare agencies. location:

190/1/4/05

190 334 (11-13-43) Foreign Economic Administration location: 190/1/4/07

253-254 350.05 (6-26-44) Post-hostilities Intelligence in occupied and liberated countries

in Europe (Sec. 1- Sec. 6) location: 190/1/6/02

262 350.05 (6-1-42) Functions of the General Department Enemy Branch, Ministry

of Economic Warfare location: 190/1/6/03

350.05

(5-21-42)

Axis blockade running, 1941-1942. location: 190/1/6/03

306 381 (10-30-43) Swedish and Turkish participation in the War. location:

190/1/7/02

363 383.7 (5-3-45) Evacuation of United Nations P/W and displaced persons through

Switzerland. location 190/1/8/03

364 383.7 (2-6-44) Rescue and relief of the Jews of Europe and other victims of

enemy persecution. Location: 190/1/8/04

Central Decimal File 1946-1947 (Entry 3)

Box # File # and Title

6-7 007 (3-13-45) Restitution and Reparations (European Theater). location:

190/1/16/03

Geographic File 1942-1945 (Entry 2)

Box # Decimal # and Title

3 091.3 Argentina (1-4-44) Proposed economic sanctions in respect to Argentina

 location: 190/1/11/06

59 385.7 French North Africa (11-11-42) Economic contribution of French North

Africa to the Axis; location: 190/1/12/07

61 123 Germany (4-20-45) contains records relating to the disposition of bullion

and other property discovered by the U.S. 3rd Army. The records cover April

20-June 8, 1945.2

 location: 190/1/13/01

72 386-Germany (3-21-45) “Control of German Property and Assets” 1945-

1949. This file contains information on efforts in the spring of 1945 to prevent

 

1

 The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) was a joint creation in 1930 of the world’s central banks,

including the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

2

 There are many other series identified in this finding aid relating to the discovery and disposition of the

gold and other valuables located in Germany in April 1945.
3

the Germans from hiding gold and the discovery and disposition of gold found

by the U.S. Army in the late spring of 1945. Included are several listings of

gold and other valuables discovered by the U.S. Army location: 190/1/13/02

92-93 091.31 Iberian Peninsula (12-22-42) Secs. 1-5 Program of trade interchange

with Spain and Portugal. location: 190/1/13/05

182 091.3 Portugal (1-1-44) Conversion of Portuguese sterling balances into gold.

location: 190/1/15/04

201 381 Sweden (3-16-45) Swedish participation in the war

381 Sweden (3-19-45) Swedish participation in the war

385 Sweden (1-17-44) Overall and special programs for Strategic Services

activities based on Sweden . location: 190/1/15/06

202 385 Switzerland (5-15-43) Psychological warfare plan for Switzerland 

location: 190/1/15/07

Records of the Combined Civil Affairs Committee

The Combined Civil Affairs Committee (CCAC) was established by the Combined Chiefs

of Staff in July 1943, to recommend civil-affairs policies for enemy or enemy-held areas that were

occupied by combined operations and to coordinate military and civilian agency interests in such

matters. The United States membership consisted of one representative each of the Army, the

Navy, and the State Department, with an additional civilian official who served as Chairman of the

Committee. The British membership consisted of one representative of the Foreign Office, two

from the British Joint Staff Mission, and one additional civilian expert.

CCAC Index 1944-1949 (Entry 87)

Boxes 1-34 location: 190/2/18/05

CCAC Decimal File 1942-1945 (Entry 88)

Boxes 1-106 location: 190/2/18/07

Box # Decimal # and File Title

1 004 (1-11-46) Reports on the I.G. Farben Industry location: 190/2/18/07

4-6 091 (9-5-44) Sec. 1-5 Status of Small European Provinces and Countries

location: 190/2/19/01

38 314.8 (10-30-43) Sec. 1-3 Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives in Allied

and Liberated Areas location: 190/2/19/06

CCAC Decimal File, Geographic Series 1942-1945 (Entry 89)

Boxes 107-155 location 190/2/21/01:

CCAC Decimal File Cross-Reference Sheets 1942-1945 (Entry 90)

Boxes 1-21 location 190/2/22/01

Boxes 19-20 contain foreign country entries

Records of the Office of Strategic Services (RG 226)

The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), was established by a military order of June 13, 1942, as the

principal successor to the Office of the Coordinator of Information. Since the latter’s establishment in July

1941, it had collected, analyzed, and disseminated information bearing on national security. The two basic

functions of the OSS, under the jurisdiction of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, involved (1) gathering, evaluating,

and analyzing intelligence in support of the war against the Axis Powers; and (2) planning and executing

operations in support of intelligence procurement. 
4

The Office of the Director of the OSS, located in Washington, DC, constituted the organization’s

headquarters throughout the war. The principal divisions within consisted of separate Offices of Deputy

Directors for Services (concerning administrative duties), Intelligence (including the Research and

Analysis and Secret Intelligence Branches), Operations (including the Special Operations and Morale

Operations Branches and the Operational Group Command), Schools and Training, and Personnel. In

addition to field offices in New York and California, the OSS established more than 40 overseas offices,

which fell under the authority of the Special Services Officer in a given theater of operations or the chief of

a mission. At the height of its wartime activities in October 1944, the OSS numbered approximately 5,500

military and 2,000 civilian personnel overseas and approximately 2,700 military and 2,000 civilian

personnel in the United States.

Among the constituent organizations, the Research and Analysis Branch (R & A) performed the principal

task of collating and evaluating intelligence information for distribution to interested government

organizations. Intelligence procurement, especially in the form of espionage, occupied the attentions of the

Secret Intelligence Branch (SI) and the Foreign Nationalities Branch (FNB). The Special Operations

Branch and (after May 1943) the Operational Group Command organized sabotage and resistance

activities behind enemy lines; the latter organization assumed responsibility for guerrilla units operating in

uniform. The Morale Operations Branch attempted to undermine Axis morale. Protecting the security of

OSS intelligence collection and operations was the responsibility of the Counterintelligence Branch (X-2).

William J. Donovan, who had previously served as the Coordinator of Information, occupied the post of

Director of the OSS throughout the war. By an Executive order of September 20, 1945, OSS was

abolished (effective October 1, 1945), and its functions, personnel, and records were divided between the

State Department and the War Department.

The OSS was drawn into the Safehaven Program - early in 1944, when the Foreign Economic

Administration (FEA) consulted on an informal basis. The general plan projected for Safehaven

operations was explaind to OSS and its cooperation enlisted. OSS instructed its agents to assist the men

from the Departments of State and Treasury and the FEA who were to visit the European neutral countries

in the summer of 1944, and to gather such intelligence as it acquired which fitted into the Safehaven

program. OSS routed to FEA and to the Department of State copies of intelligence reports.

In the spring of 1945 the Secretary of State sent a directive to OSS regarding Safehaven work, and in April

OSS forwarded instructions to its own field agents. Thereafter, so far as OSS was concerned, it was

responsible to the Department of State for its part in the program. 

OSS expected take an active part in the securing of German business records (a very significant aspect of

the Safehaven Program) for the purpose of submitting them to careful Safehaven analysis. OSS expected

to staff the Combined Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee (CIOS). CIOS, however, was put under

control of the Military, and OSS and other civilian operators were put into uniform to work under the

commander of the U.S. Military Governor for Germany, U.S. This caused records to be channeled through

Army control and had the effect of deemphasizing FEA as well as OSS purposes so far as immediate use

of German files was concerned.3

Researchers will find, scattered throughout the OSS records, Army Safehaven Program and Safehavenrelated records.

CIA sent the bulk of the OSS records to NARA in the 1980s. These records constitute 6,500 cubic feet. In

March 1997 CIA will sent to NARA an additional 300 cubic feet. Of the total 6,800 cubic feet, about 2

percent of the documents are still classified. These documents either contain sensitive source information,

 

3

 Clarke, “Safehaven Study,” pp. 104-105. Needless to say, the Records of the Office of the Military

Governor, United States (OMGUS) (RG 260) are full of intelligence based on seized German records.
5

or information that must be protected because of agreements with foreign governments. With the March

transfer, only the OSS personnel and training records will remain at the Agency Archival Records Center. 

CIA is willing to transfer these personnel and training records to NARA as well, with the understanding

that privacy considerations will be taken into account in making decisions about what portions of them will

be made available to scholars. NARA is considering whether to accept them. Undoubtedly, additional

small pockets of OSS documents will surface in the future, because some of them are integrated with other

records rather than part of a separate OSS collection.

Records of the Director

Entry 180-William J. Donovan-Selected OSS Documents 1941-1945

Microfilm A3304 190 rolls of 35mm negative microfilm and

Boxes 1-12 location: 190/9/20/01

This series contain much information on activities in neutral countries and some

information of the OSS relations with civilian and military agencies. Please consult the finding aid

for this series In the consultation area in Room 2400. This microfilm contains some material

duplicated in Entries 88, 121, 134. The Safehaven-related records are contained in roll 88, files

114-256. Specific files in roll 88 are listed below:

File # File Title or Subject

114-126 Cables

127-140 Meetings

141-159 Rebuilding of German Positions by evasion of Allied Control over exit

of German assets and personnel

160-170 A Plan for Subversive Action Against Enemy Firms Abroad

171-183 Bretton Woods Resolution VI4

184-212 Elimination of German Resources for War: Senate Hearing.5

213-218 Statement of Bernard M. Baruch6

219-221 Preliminary Report on Germany’s War Potential: Senate

222-230 Elimination of German Resources for War: Senate (Testimony of B. M.

Baruch)

231-234 Memo for Senator Kilgore

235-252 German Economic Penetration Abroad

253-257 German Economic Aggression in Latin America

To preserve the Washington Director’s Office records and restore their original

arrangement and to make them more accessible, NARA reproduced them on to a microfilm series,

 

4

 Resolution No. VI was adopted at the UN Monetary and Financial Conference, Bretton Woods, New

Hampshire. United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, July 1 to July 22,

1944, Final Act and Related Documents (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1944).

5

 This was the Senate Military Affairs Subcommittee on War Mobilization (the so-called Kilgore

Committee). The subcommittee, headed by Senator Harley M. Kilgore, held several hearings throughout the second

half of 1945 that focused on German economic penetration of neutral countries, elimination of German resources for

war, German’s resources for a third world war, and related matters. Throughout this finding aid researchers will note

that there are numerous references to the Kilgore Committee. For access to the complete files of the hearings, please

contact NARA’s Center for Legislative Archives in the Archives I building in Washington, DC. Their telephone

number is 202-501-5350.

6

 From 1943 to 1945 he was an unpaid personal adviser to James Byrnes, Director of Economic

Stabilization and later Director of War Mobilization. Baruch also headed a special fact-finding commission for

President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
6

designated NARA Microfilm Publication M1642. M1642 consists of 132 rolls. Thus far, a

detailed alphabetical index has been prepared only for the first 66 rolls. Please consult the twovolume index in the consultation area in Room 2400. The results of a cursory examination of the

index is listed below:

Subject Roll Frame

Argentine-Swiss contract negotiations (3-21-45) 21 197

Axis agents in Istanbul [Turkey] (8-17-42)36 74-76

Axis enterprises and assets transferred to neutral countries, survey of

(6-27-44)

48 627-629

BEW [Board of Economic Warfare] and Economics Division of CoI

[Coordinator of Information], relationship between (5-13-42)

48 579-586

BEW and OSS, letter to Milo Perkins7

 from WJD8 re (3-23-43) 48 595-603

BEW role, discussion of at BoB [Bureau of the Budget] (9-20-42) 48 588-592

BEW, cooperation with (3-23-43) 48 1319-1327

British Ministry of Economic Warfare (2-8-42) 22 947-949

Cartels and private monopolies (11-11-44) 20 1125

Economic Intelligence at Am[erican] Embassy, London (5-7-43) 18 517-518

Economic Intelligence, procurement of by the Foreign Economic

Administration (JIC 207/1) (9-7-44)

13 661-665

Economic Intelligence, procurement of by the Foreign Economic

Administration (JIC 207/3) (10-12-44)

13 812-820

FBI [Federal Bureau of Investigation] Special Int[elligence]

Service,9

 review of proposal for (12-30-41)

1 182

FBI Special Intelligence in Western Hemisphere (1-26-42) 1 208

FBI, establishment of Special Intelligence Service (12-23-41) 1 166

FBI, Special Intelligence Service (1-6-42) 1 172

FBI/OSS split of responsibilities per FDR directive (10-22-41) 46 596-602

FEA/OSS relationships, guidelines for (3-11-44) 48 1343

Foreign companies penetration into American industry (8-23-40) 36 123-133

Foreign service and OSS (4-28-45) 21 1189-1196

Funk, Dr. Walter, Minister of Economics,10 interrogation of,

Evaluation Report 54 (6-13-45)

29 515-520

General Analine and Film Corp., memo re by Morgenthau (1-10-42) 50 1158-1163

German captured records, procedures for coordinating handling of

(JIC [Joint Intelligence Committee] 257/11) (2-26-45)

14 210-216

German embassies and other offices in neutral countries, seizure of

(4-13-45)

15 314-318

German plans to go underground, from OSS Bern (3-26-45) 25 441-442

German remnants fleeing to Switzerland (4-4-45) 21 123-134

Germany, conditions in, from Swiss official via Bern (2-16-45) 21 450-451

I.G. Farben - I.G. Chemie (11-9-45) 32 165-168

North Africa, financial manipulations and collaborationists in (6-1-

43)

33 1320-1331

 

7

 Executive Director of the Board of Economic Warfare and the Office of Economic Warfare.

8

 William J. Donovan, head of the OSS.

9

 The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s organizational element in Latin America.

10 Walter Funk was the German Minister of Economic Affairs from 1937 to 1945 and president of the

Reichsbank beginning in 1939.
7

Puhl, Emil,11 arrived in Bern to cover German expense under terms

of Swiss decree (4-23-45)

21 167-169

Puhl, Emil, VP of Reichsbank arrived in Switzerland, report from

Bern re (4-23-45)

30 201-203

Safehaven project (1-6-45) 21 698

Safehaven work: SSU [Strategic Services Unit] reports (11-9-45) 58 767-769

Spain and Portugal, OSS activities in (2-7-44) 58 945-1395

Spanish Falange in Latin America (2-5-42) 22 921

Sweden, summary of OSS operations in (7-17-45) 62 1118-1123

Swiss bank payment to Erich Wedemeyer (3-31-43) 46 650

Swiss break dealings with Nazis (7-10-44) 30 865-869

Swiss business man, report by (10-24-42) 46 609-613

Swiss relief efforts for refugees, report re from Bern (3-16-45) 21 209-212

Swiss towns, US bombing of (11-16-44) 20 1271

Swiss towns, precautions against Allied bombing of (11-16-46) 20 1257

Swiss-Allies talks in Lisbon (7-10-44) 30 865-869

Switzerland, OSS operations in, review of (6-22-45) 25 773-777

Switzerland, over-all program for OSS in (1-21-44) 19 768

Switzerland, overall and special programs for OSS in, post hostilities

(1-30-45)

21 707

Switzerland, overall and special programs for strategic services

based in (1-30-45)

22 324-325

Switzerland, overall plan for special activities in (1-21-44) 18 707-708

Switzerland, reaction in to Hull speech and other developments

(4/44-6/45)

31 783-793

Switzerland, report on 1943 operations based in (2/44) 62 1009-1017

Switzerland, special programs for OSS activities based in (5-23-44) 18 838-839

Switzerland, Union Bank of, Locarno; pay $500 to Erich

Wedemeyer (n.d.)

46 635-637

Switzerland, two prominent German industrialists refused entry to

(12-30-44)

30 785

Vatican intelligence re attitude of Argentina toward Franco (12-19-

44)

31 641

Records of the Research and Analysis Branch

This Branch originated in the Office of the Coordinator of Information and was

responsible for the accumulation, evaluation, and analysis of political, economic, military, and

other information required for operations or requested by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the armed

forces, and other Government agencies, and the preparation of studies and other documentation

relating to such material. 

The Central Information Division (CID) of the R & A Branch served as the repository for

all but the most sensitive intelligence documents obtained by all OSS branches and from other

intelligence agencies. The records held by the CID, organized into several series with

accompanying indexes, constitute a general intelligence collection of military, political, economic,

and social information for all areas of the world during the war. These series also include data

 

11 Emil Puhl served as Vice President of the Reichsbank, beginning in 1939, and as one of the directors of

the Bank for International Settlements.
8

collected by the Coordinator of Information as early as July 1941.12

Office of the Chief, General Correspondence 1942-1946 (Entry 1)

Box # Folder #. File Title or Subject

2 2 Board of Economic Warfare

3 MEW [Ministry of Economic Warfare] location: 190/3/1/01

3 2-5 Department of State location: 190/3/1/01

6 6-7 Latin America location: 190/3/1/01

26 5 New York-includes file entitled “Safe-Haven Project” location:

190/3/1/04

Intelligence Reports (“Regular” Series) 1941-1945 (Entry 16)

The “regular” designation simply indicated that documents from this series could be

borrowed by OSS staff and other agencies. This series covers all matters of intelligence interest

during the war. The reports in this series were numbered as they were received, without regard for

origin, subject, or chronology. There are no cover or forwarding sheets to indicate the processing

of individual reports, nor is any indication provided concerning the use made or internal OSS

processing of these reports. A number ofreports were withdrawn by the State Department during

the early postwar period and became integrated in that agency’s files; sometimes these transfers are

indicated by withdrawal cards. A number of reports are available as “sanitized” reproductions,

with portions deleted for continued security classification. The series is arranged numerically (1-

145,317, with some gaps). Most of the records have been microfilmed as NARA Microfilm

Publication 1499

Boxes 1-1685 location: 190/3/11/04

Name and Subject Index to the “Regular” Intelligence Reports [Series 16]

(Entry 14)

This index is arranged in three subseries (persons, countries, and subjects), each

thereunder arranged alphabetically. Entries under “countries” also include major islands; some

specific regions; and general entries for “Allied Countries” and “Axis Countries.” Within each

entry of each subseries, the cards are arranged according to a numerical classification scheme. An

explanation of the numerical scheme is provided at the beginning of the series. Each card

identifies information from a single report, with References to the report’s number and original

security classification status; title; date; source; and a description of contents.

Boxes 1-436 location: 190/3/4/04

Boxes Country Location

107-109 Argentina 190/3/6/01

110-113 Austria 190/3/6/01

113-117 Axis 190/3/6/02

200-247 Germany 190/3/7/04

276-294 Italy 190/3/8/05

358-363 Portugal 190/3/9/07

384-392 Spain 190/3/10/03

393-395 Sweden 190/3/10/04

 

12 Researchers may find useful the Abraham G. Druker/Irving Dwork Papers (OSS Research and Analysis

Branch, Jewish Desk-World War II) (Boxes 1-29 location: 130/75/43/02) in the National Archives Gift Collection

(RG 200). 
9

396-397 Switzerland 190/3/10/04

404-409 Turkey 190/3/10/05

Formerly Security-Classified Intelligence Reports (“XL” Series) 1941-46

(Entry 19)

Similar in content to the “regular reports” (entry 16), this series is also arranged

numerically (XL 1-51,494, with gaps), with some unnumbered documents appended to the end of

the series. “XL” denoted more limited distribution than that governing “regular” intelligence

reports: OSS staff members could borrow “XL” documents for use, but members of other agencies

could not. The wide range of intelligence content, however, matches that of the principal series of

intelligence reports, with the possible Addition of more data for the 1945-1946 period. The

distinguishing characteristic of this series lies in the large number of captured German documents,

most of which constitute original copies.

Boxes 1-7 location: 190/4/12/06

Boxes 264-474 location: 190/B/1/07

Formerly Security-Classified Intelligence Reports (“L” Series) 1942-45

(Entry 21)

This series is closely related to the two preceding intelligence series. It is arranged numerically

(L1-58,678). The information was obtained directly by the OSS’ Secret Intelligence Branch, and

it could only be used in a special reading room by approved OSS personnel. The series’ contents

reflect more sensitive political intelligence matters.

Boxes 1-457 location: 190/4/23/06

Name and Subject Indexes to the “XL” and “L” Series [Entries 19, 21] (Entry 17)

These card indexes are arranged in three subseries (persons, countries or geographic areas,

and subjects), each thereunder arranged alphabetically. The entries within each subseries follow

the same numerical classification scheme as described for the name and subject indexes to the

“regular” intelligence reports; the format and content of the card indexes also remains the same. 

Boxes 1-120 location: 190/4/10/07

Card Abstracts of Intelligence Reports (“regular,” “L,” and “XL” series) Relating to Conditions

and Events in European Countries 1942-1945 (Entry 24)

These card indexes are arranged by original dissemination number of report, which merely

identify the internal OSS dissemination numbers for CID reports.

Boxes 1-23location: 190/5/3/01

Formerly Security-Classified Information Studies and Reports Concerning Political, Sociological,

and Economic Conditions in Various Countries (“R and A Reports”) 1941-1946 (Entry 8)

These records are arranged numerically (1-3492, with considerable gaps), with several

subject and miscellaneous reports appended to the end of the numerical arrangement. These

reports comprise studies of conditions of particular situations in general and specific areas,

interviews with diplomatic representatives or area experts, and studies prepared by other

intelligence operations. The overwhelming majority of reports concern developments in the Far

East. No listing or index to the series exists.

Boxes 1-64 location: 190/3/2/03

Research and Analysis Branch, Despatches Received from Neutral Posts 1941-1942 (Entry 4)
10

Box # Location

1-2 Bern, 1941-194413 location: 190/3/1/06

3 Helsinki, Lisbon, 1941-1942 location: 190/3/1/06

4 Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, Stockholm, 1941-1942

location: 190/3/1/06

Other OSS Records Pertaining to Safehaven Operations and Related Matters

Records of the OSS History Office (Entry 99)

Please consult the finding aid for this Entry in the consultation area in Room 2400 for

specific folders. Also consult the list at the front of the finding aid for other countries and

subjects.

Boxes Relating to the Safe Haven Project

Boxes location: 190/4/23/06

Box 13 location: 190/6/10/02

Box 20 location: 190/6/10/03

Box 34 location: 190/6/10/05

Box 60 location: 190/6/11/02

Box 115 location: 190/6/12/03

Boxes Pertaining to Switzerland

Box 4 location: 190/6/10/01

Box 7 location: 190/6/10/01

Boxes 10-13 location: 190/6/10/02

Box 18 location: 190/6/10/03

Box 24 location: 190/6/10/04

Box 26 location: 190/6/10/04

Boxes 29-32 location: 190/6/10/04

Boxes 34-35 location: 190/6/10/05

Box 44 location: 190/6/10/06

Boxes 59-60 location: 190/6/11/02

Box 110 location: 190/6/12/02

Box 115 location: 190/6/12/03

Boxes 120-125 location: 190/6/12/03

Box 130 location: 190/6/12/05

Records Relating to a Survey of Foreign Experts (Entry 105)

Contains raw intelligence and other information pertaining to Switzerland, Germany, Italy,

Austria, and other countries..

Boxes 1-32 location: 190/6/15/06

Records of Special Intelligence Operations (Entry 106)

Box # File Title or Subject

29 Iberian Peninsula

Portugal location: 190/6/17/01

31-34 Spain location: 190/6/17/01

 

13 Allen Welsh Dulles from October 1942 until the end of the war served as Chief of the OSS in

Switzerland. Late in 1945, Dulles led the OSS mission to Germany.
11

35 Sweden

Switzerland location: 190/6/17/02

35-36 Turkey location: 190/6/17/02

69 Neutral shipping location: 190/6/17/07

70 Argentina location: 190/6/17/07

72 Swiss Ship Project

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Turkey location: 190/6/17/07

Records Relating to a Survey of Foreign Experts (Entry 107)

Box 2 (folder 39) contains information on Safe Haven Project.

location: 190/6/18/02

Washington Registry Special Intelligence Field Files 1943-1951 (Entry 108)

Please see box and folder lists for pertinent records.

Boxes 1-462 location: 190/6/18/04

Washington Registry Special Intelligence Branch Field Files. (Entries 108A,B, and C)

Please see box and folder lists for pertinent records

Entry 108A Boxes 1-289 location: 190/6/28/01

Entry 108B Boxes 1-320 location: 190/6/33/07

Entry 108C Boxes 1-22 location: 190/7/5/04

Records of the COI/OSS Washington (Entry 118A)

Box # Folder# File Title or Subject

1 5 Switzerland: Economic, Military, Political

2 6 Switzerland: Military, Industry location: 190/7/11/06

1 Switzerland: Economic

3 Switzerland: Economic, Political location: 190/7/11/06

4 2 Abwehr14 Activities in Sweden, Turkey and Algiers

2 Enemy Intelligence Activities in Portugal, Spain,

Sweden, Switzerland, and other countries

2 German and Italian Intelligence Activities in Sweden,

Switzerland, and other countries.

3 German Intelligence Activities in Spain and other

countries

4 Axis Intelligence Activities in Spain, Sweden,

Switzerland, Trieste, and other countries

4 Looted art treasures location: 190/7/11/06

5 1 Looted art

2 Swiss files

Abwehr and SD15 in Spain

 

14 Abwehr was short for Amt Austlandsmachrichten und Abwehr, the German Secret Intelligence and

Military Counter-Intelligence Department of the High Command headed by Admiral Wilhelm Canaris.
12

Axis Intelligence Activities in Sweden

The Goering16 Collection

Heinrich Himmler17

Schellenberg’s Swiss and Swedish

Connections/autobiography18

Ukranian deposits in Portugal

Vatican Policy and the Third Reich

Werewolf19 in Switzerland location:190/7/11/06

Field Station (Bern and Madrid) Files (Entry 123)

Box # Folder# File Title or Subject

2 20-29 German Intelligence in Switzerland, Sweden, Portugal,

Spain, and several other countries. location:

190/7/17/01

4 27 German Intelligence in Sweden

29 German Intelligence in Switzerland

53 German Intelligence in Spain location: 190/7/17/02

6 73 German Intelligence in Switzerland, Sweden, Portugal,

Spain, and several other countries. location:

190/7/17/02

14 166 Information on establishment of War Refugee Board

location: 190/7/17/03

15 169 German espionage in Madrid. location: 190/7/17/03

16 183 Censorship Watch List[Spain] location: 190/7/17/03

Field Station Field Files (Bern et al) (Entry 124)

Box # Folder# File Title or Subject

1 5-6 Censorship Information and Procedures location:

190/7/17/04

2 7-8 Censorship Information and Procedures location:

190/7/17/04

4 24 Safehaven names. location: 190/7/17/04

5 30 Report on Swiss Situation. location: 190/7/17/04

6 32-34 Handbook: Switzerland. location: 190/7/17/04

7 35 Handbook: Switzerland. location: 190/7/17/05

 

15 The SD (Sicherheitsdienst) was the Security Service of the SS founded in 1932 and directed by Reinhard

Heydrich, which became the sole intelligence service of the Nazi Party.

16 Hermann Wilhelm Goering was Commander in Chief of the German Air Force, Plenipotentiary for the

Four Year Plan. His Four Year Plan Office was formally in control of economic policy in the occupied lands.

17 Reichsfuhrer-SS, head of the Gestapo (acronym for Gerheime Staats Polizei, the German secret state

police) and the Waffen-SS, and Minister of the Interior from 1943 to 1945.

18 From 1939 to 1942 Schellenberg was Deputy Chief of Amt VI of the RSHA [Reich Main Security

Office], in charge of the political secret service for foreign countries. In 1942 he was promoted to head Amt VI of

the RSHA and Chief of Security in the occupied territories. In 1944 he was appointed head of the united SS and

Wehrmacht military intelligence, standing second only to Himmler in the Gestapo hierarchy.

19 Werewolves, or “Wolf-Men,” was a German organization of guerrilla fighters set up in the last days of

the war and commanded by General Has Pruetzmann. The Werewolves were modeled on the Resistance fighters in

Geman-occupied countries. It was thought they would continue to fight once the war ended but they ceased

operations days before the peace with Germany was concluded.
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13 72 Handbook: Portugal. location: 190/7/17/05

14 74 German Intelligence Service in Portugal location:

190/7/17/06

16 96 Information about Sigismund Freiherr von Bibra’s

activities in Switzerland

99 Notes on Hans Sokol20. location: 190/7/17/06

21 145 Sweden-Background information on Swedish attitude

toward war, pro-Allied, pro-Nazi individuals. location:

190/7/17/07

Field Station (Bern, Stockholm, and Caserta) Files (Entry 125)

Box # Folder# File Title or Subject

1 13 Current financial situation, foreign exchange rates, etc.

April-May 1945 location: 190/7/18/01

7 95 Political and economic reports

100 Trading with Enemy

106 Crown Jewels

113 Refugees-statements on plight of refugees. location:

190/7/18/02

11 183 Underground channels for accumulation of gold or

Swiss banknotes by enemy. location: 190/7/18/03

12 201 Proclaimed List-Lists of blocked nationals21 in

Switzerland and Liechtenstein. location: 190/7/18/03

15 242 Commercial Intelligence-Exports of Swedish Firms.

location: 190/7/18/03

26 358 Axis intelligence activities in Sweden

366 Nazism in Sweden location: 190/7/18/05

Paris Field Station Files (Entry 128)

Box 2 (file INT-5 “Safe Haven - FEA [Foreign Economic Administration] request for

information on flight of enemy assets, report on clandestine movement of capital and stocks across

frontiers...November 1944-March 1945") location: 190/7/21/05

Washington and Field Station Records (Entry 139)

Box 226 (folder 3255, File number AD-49 “‘Safehaven’” (Mowinckel Unit)-

Establishment of unit to intensify investigation of enemy activities in international business, April

1945.”) location: 190/8/6/06

Miscellaneous Washington Files (Entry 146)

Please see box and folder lists for pertinent records;

Boxes 1-28 location: 190/8/26/04

 

20 He was in charge of the Abwehr (German Military Counter-Intelligence) in Portugal.

21 Presidential Proclamation 2497, July 17, 1941, instructed the Secretary of State to prepare an list of

persons working with or for the Axis and persons to whom exports from the United States were deemed to be

detrimental to the interests of national defense. The resulting Division of World Trade Intelligence and its successor,

the Division of Economic Security Controls, prepared the original “Proclaimed List of Certain Blocked Nationals”

and maintained its various supplements and revisions from 1941 to 1946. For detailed information on “The

Proclaimed List of Certain Blocked Nationals,” see the World Trade Intelligence records in Records of

Interdepartmental and Intradepartmental Committees (State Department) RG 353. 
14

New York and Field Station Records (Entry 168)

Box # Folder# File Title or Subject

38 538 “Switzerland - Secret, The Political and Economic

Environment in this Country, Comment of Bernard

Baruch. Arrival of Swiss Citizens in the U.S., and

Criticism of State Department Personnel based in

Switzerland by American Journalist. November 1941-

March 1942.” location: 190/9/8/06

47 648 “Board of Economic Warfare; Re; Proclaimed List of

certain Block Nations (I/S)(Presidential Proclamation

2497, July 17, 1941 and Supplements) Reports on

conditions in France and Switzerland by newly arrived

Foreign businessmen (Secret) April-August 1942.”)

location: 190/9/8/07

72 919 “Safe Haven Project...Gathering of Facts about the

concealment of assets abroad by the German after

W.W.I and any related activities for the purpose of

Preserving Potential Military or Economic Power for

future German use. June 1944-February 1945.”

location: 190/9/9/04

Washington X-2 Branch Personalities Files (Entry 171)

Box # Folder# File Title or Subject

39 654 “State Department-FBI memos. Alois Miedl22

Safehaven activities. Subject reports. November 24,

1944-April 22, 1946" location: 190/9/9/03

45 689 “Safehaven. German, Japanese activities. Individual

subject activities. January 19, 1945-May 25, 1946"

location: 190/9/9/04

Washington X-2 Branch Personalities Files (Entry 171A)

Box # Folder# File Title or Subject

63 779 “Request by Philby H.A.R. to interrogate Velhagen,

Adolf because of information on the England fund

noted in an earlier safehaven report.”

785 “Wainer, Samuel...Data on subject. Also report that

Nazi leaders are depositing money in Argentina, and

that lesser Nazi leaders seen in Argentina January

1945"

64 794 “Personalities, 2 memos re; safehaven, several items on

International Red Cross and German espionage”

65 805 “Various matters including several documents on

Safehaven”

66 814 “Personalities, safehaven, Werewolf organization.”

815 “Personalities, safehaven...”

69 839 “Doc. Economic Warfare (Safehaven) Series 245,

American Embassy, London England June 23, 1945...”.

 

22 German businessman, banker, and art dealer.
15

location: 190/9/9/07

CAIRO SI/X-2 Branch Records (Entry 172)

Box 10 (Folder 292, “Safehaven Project: instructions for investigation of enemy capital in

neutral European capitals, 16 January-21 May 1945"). location: 190/9/13/04

Rome X-2 Branch Records (Entry 174)

Boxes 165-238 pertain to activities in Switzerland. location: 190/9/17/02

Washington Secret Intelligence/Special Funds Records (Entry 183)

Most of this series are from the Special Funds Division Finance, Intelligence (WASHSPDF-INT). These records primarily center on economic activities, economic intelligence, and

Safehaven program activities. The Safehaven materials focus on efforts to locate, recover, and

return to owners or the Allies materials looted, converted during the war; and, efforts to prevent

enemy organizations or individuals from hiding assets or holdings. The rest of the records in the

series cover a wide range of OSS interests and activities, particularly economic information and

intelligence). The following is a list of notable interests: 1) German industry and international

cartels, particularly I.G. Farben; 2) gold and currency activities, banking, counterfeiting, and

smuggling; 3) German activities in Spain and Portugal, including materials on SOFINDUS, the

German organization for trade with Spain; 4) activities of Allies and neutrals with Italian and

German industrialists, engineers, and scientists; 5) activities in the four occupation zones of

Germany; 6) information on individuals and organizations, including political movements; and, 7)

the agency for the confiscation of Dutch-Jewish property.

Boxes 1-35 location: 190/9/22/01

Director’s Office and Field Station Records (Entry 190)

Box # Folder# File Title or Subject

30 122 “Stolen Art-Blum correspondence, reports about looted

art in Switzerland, report of foreign economic

penetration of Switzerland, report of Abwehr

penetration of American agencies...October 1942-

January 1946."

123 “Safehaven Memos-Information on names on

Proclaimed List, information on other individuals, Blum

correspondence...July 1944-November 1947". location:

190/9/24/01

Washington and Field Station Files (Entry 194)

Box 11 (Folders 35-36 contain information about Swiss banking connections with German

interests) location: 190/10/5/07

Washington Office-Items Previously Withheld (Entry 196)

Box # Folder# File Title or Subject

14 27 “Information on German agents in Switzerland (August

1944) location: 190/10/9/05

19 36 “Report Concerning three alleged German agents

working in Switzerland (Nov 1942) location:

190/10/9/06

20 37 Information by the American Embassy in London

regarding the relationship between the chemical firm of
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Knoll A.G. at Ludwigshaven and the one in Liestal,

Switzerland (Feb 1943) location: 190/10/9/06

36 81 “Official dispatches transmitted in code or cipher by the

Bern, Switzerland to OSS, providing information on

activity, background, biographical data and political

orientation of numerous individuals (February-October

1944) location: 190/10/10/01

37 83 Numerous official dispatches to OSS from Bern,

Switzerland covering extensive intelligence and

political information on several countries in Europe and

Japan (April 1944) location: 190/10/10/01

52 123 A Report from the Embassy in Rio de Janeiro entitled

“Possible Safehaven Activities of Friedrich Wilhelm

Beutner” (June 1945) location: 190/10/10/03

64-73 contain censorship information, including files on

individuals to be placed on the Watch List location:

190/10/10/05

74 190 Memorandum regarding German enemy agents in the

International Red Cross - Report covering the subject of

“Enemy agents and the International Red Cross” - Other

information regarding the “I.R.C. and chains of agents

out of France via Spain into North Africa (1943-1944)

location: 190/10/10/07

83 215 Report of Laval,23 Safehaven reports” location:

190/10/11/01

85 221 “suggestions for censorship, watchlisting, Axis funds”

location: 190/10/11/01

86 224 FBI [Federal Bureau of Investigation] reports on

espionage in Brazil, FBI reports on individuals, German

national location in Spain, Portugal and the Western

Approaches 1943-1946 location: 190/10/11/01

94 241-242 hundreds of radio and cable dispatches from and to

OSS Bern, Switzerland 1944-June 1946 location:

190/10/11/03

99 256 contains S.I.M. Files on Switzerland from 1942 to

1946. location: 190/10/11/04

Records of the Strategic Services Unit

The Strategic Services Unit (SSU) was created in 1945 following the termination of the

OSS. It was staffed by veterans of the OSS Secret Intelligence Branch and the OSS

Counterintelligence (X-2) Branch. SSU was absorbed by the Central Intelligence Group in 1946

and its staff and functions became part of the Central Intelligence Agency in 1947.

During this interim period, the SSU continued to gather information and prepare

intelligence reports on world-wide events of interest to the U.S. These Strategic Services Unit

Intelligence Reports 1945-1946 (Entry 153A), have been reproduced on NARA Microfilm

Publication M1656 (5 rolls). Thus far an index has been prepared for the first three rolls. 

 

23 Pierre Laval was a major leader in the French Vichy regime, serving as Foreign Minister and in other

capacities.
17

Researchers may be interested in the following:

Roll Frame Report # Subject

1 341 A-66111 Morocco. Clandestine gold traffic, February 2, 1946.

1 421 A-66350 Morocco. Transfer of capital from France and Spain to

Tangier, February 20, 1946.

1 490 A-66560 Switzerland. Refugees, emigres, and internees in

Switzerland as of December 30, 1945, January 6, 1946.

1 1320 A-67491 Austria. Russian-Austrian conference to settle German

property disputes, April 25, 1946.

2 130 A-67697 Germany. Russian-German conferences regarding

reparation program, March 20, 1946.

2 1033 A-69077 Austria. Proposed Austro-Swiss Bank, May 16, 1946.

3 1110 A-69918 Morocco. Smuggling of gold from Morocco to Portugal,

July 17, 1946.

The War Department and the Army Records

Records of the Office of the Secretary of War (RG 107)

During World War II the Secretary of War and his Office had two major functions. The first was to

determine general policy for the military establishment as a whole and policy with respect to special

military problems as they arose; the Secretary’s decisions, transmitted as directives by the Chief of Staff to

his subordinates at the appropriate levels of command, were translated into action throughout the War

Department and the Army. The other major function was to supervise the procurement of weapons,

equipment, and supplies for the Army.

The wartime Secretaries of War were Henry L. Stimson, July 10, 1940-September 21, 1945, and Robert P.

Patterson, September 27, 1945-July 18, 1947.

Records of the Secretary of War

Formerly Top Secret Correspondence of the Secretary of War Stimson (“Safe File”) 1940-1945

(Entry 99)

The records are arranged alphabetically according to subject.

Boxes 1-15 location: 390/8/32/05

Box # File Title

3 Combined Chiefs of Staff

Committee of Three (State, War, Navy)24

4 Coordinating Committee (State, War, Navy)

5 Germany

8 Italy

12 South American Republics

Spain

13 State Department

Sweden

Treasury

15 White House Correspondence

 

24 The Committee of Three was composed of the Secretaries of State, Way, and Navy.
18

White House Cables

Correspondence of Secretary of War Stimson (“Official File”) 1940-1945 (Entry 100)

The records are arranged alphabetically according to subject or name of correspondent. 

Copies of speeches are filed either under the name of the group addressed or under the subject of

the speech.

Boxes 1-12 location: 390/8/32/07

Cross-Reference Sheets to the General Correspondence 1943-1946 (Entry 101)

These are 5-by-8-inch carbon copies of the top potion of the 8-by-10-inch sheets interfiled

with the correspondence described in Entry 102. Each sheet provides the primary decimal (upper

left corner) under which either the document or the original 8-by-11-inch cross-reference sheet is

filed, the decimals under which other copies of the cross-reference sheet is filed, the decimal

(shown in the shaded box) under which the cross-reference sheet itself is filed, date of document,

date of receipt, names of writer and recipient, security classification, subject and summary of

contents, and notations concerning enclosures and the disposition of the document. The records

are arranged according to the War Department decimal classification scheme. At the end of the

series are cross-reference sheets for project files arranged alphabetically by subject and thereunder

by decimal number.

Boxes 1-48 location: 390/8/33/02

Coordination & Records Decimal File 1943-1946 (General Correspondence) (Entry 102)

Much of the Secretary of War’s general correspondence for this period was forwarded to other

offices for reply and filing. In many cases, the files in this series consist only of a cross-reference

sheet, the originals of those described in Entry 101, for each incoming and outgoing document and

a copy of the Secretary of War’s reply. The cross-reference sheets generally indicate to which

office the incoming document was referred. The cross-reference sheets in this series contain 

many references to other series among the records of the Office of the Secretary of War.

The most frequent cross-reference is to a “secret file.” The documents thus referred to may be

filed in Stimson”s “Safe File,” (Entry 99). Cross-References to a “new file” refer to Secretary of

War Patterson’s correspondence, February 1946-July 1947 (Entry 110). The records are arranged

according to the War Department decimal classification scheme. At the end of the series are a

number of project files arranged alphabetically by subject. The records within a project file are

generally arranged alphabetically by subtopic, or, in a few cases, are arranged chronologically and

numbered.

Boxes 1-175 location: 390/8/34/05

Secretary of War (Patterson) Subject File (Safe File) 1945-1947 (Formerly Top Secret 

Correspondence (“Safe File”) (Entry 106)

Arranged alphabetically according to subject. Boxes 1-7 location: 390/9/3/03

Box # File Title

3 Committee of Three #1; Committee of Three #2

4 Germany; Germany #2

Intelligence Matters

5 Latin American Countries

Kilgore [U.S. Senate] Committee

7 State Department

Cross-Reference Sheets to the Security-Classified Correspondence 1946-1947 (Entry 107) The
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cross-reference sheets in this series are identical in format to those described in Entry 101; some

are duplicated in Entry 108. The records arranged in two parts: the first arranged according to the

War Department decimal classification scheme; the second arranged alphabetically according to

subject of the project file.

Box 1 location: 390/9/3/04

Secretary of the Army (Patterson) General Decimal File 1946-1947 (Formerly SecurityClassified Correspondence) (Entry 108)

This series consists largely of memorandums exchanged between the Secretary of War and

the Under Secretary and the Assistant Secretaries of War; “stayback” copies of letters,

memorandums, and reports to the Secretary of State, Secretary of the Navy, the President, and

other high officials of the Federal Government; memorandums and position papers received from

the War Department General and Special Staffs; copies of processed documents and publications

of the War Department; and cross-reference sheets. Included are documents originally classified

as “top secret,” and “secret.” Unlike the “Safe File” (Entry 106), which was maintained in

Patterson’s immediate office, this series was kept in the Coordination and Records Division of the

Secretary’s Office. Arranged according to the War Department decimal classification scheme

followed by six project(subject) files.

Boxes 1-10 location: 390/9/3/06

Box # Decimal # File Title

5 334 Allied Commission for Italy

334 Executive Committee on Economic Foreign Policy

334 Central Intelligence Group; Central Intelligence Group II

334 Committee of Three

334 National Intelligence Authority

6 383.6 Germany

8 Argentina

Germany

9 Madrid, Spain

Italy

Sweden

Switzerland

Turkey

Cross-Reference Sheets to the General Correspondence 1946-1948 (Entry 109)

These are 5-by-8-inch carbon copies of the top portion of the 8-by-10-inch sheets

interfiled with the correspondence described in Entry 110. Each sheet provides the primary

decimal (upper left corner) under which either the document or the original 8-by-11-inch crossreference sheet is filed, the decimals under which other copies of the cross-reference sheet are

filed, the decimal (shown in the shaded box) under which the cross-reference sheet itself is filed,

date of document, date of receipt, name of writer and recipient, security classification, subject and

summary of contents, and notations concerning enclosures and the disposition of the document.

Arranged according to the War Department decimal classification scheme. At the end of the series

are cross-reference sheets for project (subject) files arranged alphabetically by subject and

thereunder by decimal number.

Boxes 1-31 location: 390/9/3/06

Coordination & Records Decimal File 1946-1947 (General Correspondence) (Entry 110)
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Most of the Secretary of War’s general correspondence of this period was forwarded to

other offices for reply and filing. In many cases, the files in this series consist only of a crossreference sheet, the originals of those described in Entry 109, for each incoming and outgoing

document and a copy of Patterson’s reply. The cross-reference sheets generally in boxes indicate

to which office the incoming document was referred. The cross-reference sheets in this series

contain many references to other series among the records of the Office of the Secretary of War.

The most frequent cross-reference is to a “secret file.” The document thus referred to may be filed

in either Patterson’s security-classified correspondence (Entry 108); or in Patterson’s “Safe File”

(Entry 106). Many are in this series in the same file with related cross-reference. References to a

“previous file” or “old file” refer to the general correspondence of Stimson (Entry 102). 

References to a “new file” related to Patterson’s correspondence as Secretary of the Army, which

is part of Record Group 335, Records of the Secretary of the Army. Arranged according to the War

Department decimal classification scheme. At the end of the series is a number of project files

arranged alphabetically by subject. The records within a project file are generally arranged

alphabetically by subtopic, or, in a few cases, are arranged chronologically and numbered.

Boxes 176-226 location: 390/9/4/06

Records of the Under Secretary of War

The Under Secretary of War occupied a position created by an act of December 16, 1940

(54 Stat. 1224), and carried on the duties, formerly vested in the Assistant Secretary of War. 

Robert P. Patterson became Under Secretary when that position was created and continued in

office until September 1945. Besides his primary procurement functions the Under Secretary of

War had various duties that were delegated to him from time to time by the Secretary.

The position of the Under Secretary of War was held by the following: Robert P. Patterson

(December 16, 1940-September 26, 1945), Kenneth C. Royall (November 9, 1945-July 23, 1947),

and William H. Draper, Jr. (August 29, 1947-September 17, 1947)

Administrative Office Classified Decimal File 1945 (Formerly Security-Classified

Correspondence) (Entry 141)

Records filed under the project portion of the series under “Foreign Countries and

Cities,” contain information on the military occupation of Germany, and Swedish and Swiss

wartime trade with Germany. The records are arranged according to the War Department decimal

classification scheme. At the end of the series are ten project files, one of which is “Foreign

Countries and Cities.”

Each project file is arranged alphabetically by name or subject and thereunder according

to the War Department decimal classification scheme.

Boxes 209-264 location: 390/9/10/02

Administrative Office Decimal File 1943-1945 (General Correspondence) (Entry 144)

Much of the series consists of cross-reference sheets that refer to documents which either

were filed elsewhere in this series, or in Patterson’s security-classified correspondence for this

period (Entry 141), or, within the records of his assistants, or which were forwarded to other

offices. The correspondence itself consists mainly of letters, memorandums, reports, cablegrams,

bulletins, transcripts of hearings, and publications exchanged with other officials in the War

Department, Army Service Forces, Cabinet Members, the White House, Members of Congress,

Federal Bureau of Investigation, businessmen, and industrialists. Within the project files in the

series under the project “Foreign Countries and Cities,” are records primarily concerning U.S.

installations located within the country and the financial, military, and political conditions of the
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country or city. The records are arranged according to the War Department decimal classification

scheme. At the end of the series is a number of project files which are arranged alphabetically by

subject or project. The records in each project are arranged alphabetically by topic and thereunder

according to the War Department decimal classification scheme.

Boxes 262-552 location: 390/9/13/01

Security-Classified Correspondence 1945-1947 (Entry 146)

Among the records in this series are those relating to employment of economic warfare to

reduce the war potential of the enemy (decimal 091.3) The records in this series are arranged

according to the War Department decimal classification scheme with a number of small project

files at the end of the series arranged alphabetically by subject or project.

Boxes 1-12 location: 390/9/21/06

Administrative Office Decimal File 1945-1947 (General Correspondence) (Entry 147)

 Much of this series consists of cross-reference sheets which refer to documents filed

elsewhere in this series, in other series of the Under Secretary’s correspondence, or among the

records of other officials in the Office of the Under Secretary of War, or in other offices of the War

Department. Most of the correspondence was with other officials in the Offices of the Under

Secretary and Secretary of War, the Army Services Forces, Members of Congress, members of

interagency boards and committees, businessmen, and industrialists. The records in the project

portion of the files relate almost entirely to the acquisition or lease of land and property for military

purposes or the disposal of surplus Government property. In addition, records filed under the

project “Foreign Countries,” deal with the economic needs of those countries, settlement of lendlease payments, the military occupation of Germany and Austria, and industrial mobilization in the

Axis and Allied countries during World War II. The records are arranged according to the War

Department decimal classification scheme. At the end of the series is a number of project files

arranged alphabetically by subject of the project. The records in each project file are arranged

alphabetically by topic thereunder according to the War Department decimal classification scheme.

Boxes 553-706 location: 390/9/22/01

Records of the Executive Assistant, Special Assistant and Consultants

Records of Special Assistant Harold H. Neff

Harold H. Neff served as an expert and adviser on foreign economic matters to the Under

Secretary of War from September 1941 until September 1945. As such, he was principally

concerned with ensuring adequate supplies of critical and strategic defense materials for the United

States and its Allies while denying these essential materials to the Axis powers, analyzing the

industrial and economic strength of the enemy, and serving as the Under Secretary of War’s major

contact with the War Department liaison office attached to the Board of Economic Warfare and its

successors, the Office of Economic Warfare and the Foreign Economic Administration.

Special Assistant for Economic Warfare Harold H. Neff, General File 1943-1945

(Entry 160)

Neff’s correspondence with the Under Secretary of War consists largely of memorandums

outlining his views on the policy the War Department should recommend or pursue on such issues

as alleged Swedish violations of the Anglo-Swedish War Trade Agreement of 1939; smuggling of

oil, diamonds, and other minerals into Germany by neutral countries; exportation of aviation

gasoline to Sweden and Spain; and, implementation of a blockade against Japan. There are also

synopses of lengthy reports and studies prepared by Neff and forwarded to the Under Secretary of
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War on such broader subjects as neutral trade and German economic strengths and weaknesses. 

The rest of the series includes short notes Neff prepared as aides-memoir, summarizing meetings

he had attended and telephone conversations he had held; minutes of meetings of the BEW [Board

of Economic Warfare] (with Neff’s comments on the matters discussed); mimeographed copies of

area studies and reports prepared by the Board of Economic Warfare; Foreign Economic

Administration, and the Research and Analysis Branch of the Office of Strategic Services; War

and State Departments cablegrams on economic conditions in Europe; and export license

applications received from Spain, Portugal, Turkey, and Sweden. The records are arranged in two

alphabetical sequences: the first by office or subject; the second by name of country. The four

largest country files (Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland) are further divided as follows:

general, cables, statistics, and various subjects arranged alphabetically.

Boxes 906-929 location: 390/9/28/05

Box # File Title and/or Subject

906-907 Board of Economic Warfare, Office of Economic Warfare,

Foreign Economic Administration; location: 390/9/28/05

910 BEW [Board of Economic Warfare], Neutral Trade location:

390/9/28/06

912 War Refugee Boardlocation: 390/9/28/06

913 Argentinalocation: 390/9/28/06

914 Europe-”Safehaven”location: 390/9/28/06

915 Germany; Italylocation: 390/9/28/06

919-919 Portugallocation: 390/9/28/07

920-921 Spain location: 390/9/28/07

922-926 Sweden location: 390/9/28/07

927-929 Switzerland location: 390/9/28/07

929 Turkey location: 390/9/29/01

Records of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of War

Among the duties of the Assistant Secretary of War were: 1) Supervision of lend-lease

policy and the economic phases of military occupation; 2) supervision of civil affairs, that is, the

military government of occupied countries; and, 3) coordination of War Department policies and

activities with those of the State Department. In this capacity, the Assistant Secretary of War

served as a member of the State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee. The Assistant Secretary of

War also served as chairman of the Combined Civil Affairs Committee, an Anglo-American

committee which served under the Combined Chiefs of Staff. It recommended civil affairs

policies for enemy and enemy-held areas that were occupied by combined operations and

coordinated military and civilian agency interests in such matters.

The position of Assistant Secretary of War was held successively by John J. McCloy

(April 1941-November 1945) and Howard Petersen (December 1945-July 1947).

Classified Reference-Subject File 1940-1947 (Name and Title Index to the Formerly 

Security-Classified Correspondence 1941-1945) (Entry 179)

This series consists largely of carbon copies of letters and memorandums sent or

received, which serve as a name and title index to McCloy’s security-classified correspondence

(see Entry 180). On the right margin of these carbons are the date of the document and the

decimal number under which the original or first carbon of the document is filed. The records are

arranged alphabetically by surname or title of the writer, of the addressee, or of the person who is

the subject of the correspondence. Correspondence concerning countries is filed under
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“geographical” and thereunder alphabetically by name of country or region.

Boxes 84-88 location: 390/9/32/02

Formerly Security Classified Correspondence of John J. McCloy 1941-1945 (Entry 180)

Records pertain to a variety of subjects. Included are the operations of the Strategic

Services Unit and the creation of the Central Intelligence Agency (decimal 004.7); meetings of the

Committee of Three (decimal 334.8); postsurrender policy towards Germany and Japan (decimal

387); evaluation of the Morgenthau Plan for postwar Germany25 (decimal 370.8); and, financial

aspects of the Allied occupation of Germany (decimal 370.8). At the end of this series are a

number of War Department Civil Affairs Division reports, May 1943-January 1946. There are

also 21 letters and memorandums removed from McCloy’s personal papers as official documents. 

The records are arranged according to the War Department decimal classification scheme. For a

name and title index see Entry 179. 

Boxes 1-49 location: 390/9/32/03

Geographic File (Formerly Security Classified Correspondence Relating to Conditions and 

Events in Europe, Asia, and Latin America) 1941-1943 (Entry 181)

This series contains correspondence with the Secretary and Under Secretary of War, the

Military Intelligence Division of the War Department General Staff, the Department of State, and

members of Congress. Among the records are those relating to the value of Bern and Stockholm

as intelligence listening posts. Arranged alphabetically by country or region.

Boxes 82-83 location: 390/9/33/03

Reference-Subject File 1940-1947 (Name and Title Index to the General Correspondence

1941-1945) (Entry 182)

Carbon copies or summaries of letters and memorandums sent and received, which serve

as a name and title index to McCloy’s general correspondence (Entry 183). On the right margin of

these carbons are the date of the document and the decimal number under which the original of the

document or the first carbon is filed. The records are arranged alphabetically by surname or title

of the writer, of the addressee, or of the person who is the subject of the letter. Correspondence

with the War Department is filed under “War Department” and thereunder alphabetically by name

or office or title of official.

Boxes 156-175 location: 390/9/33/03

General Correspondence of John J. McCloy 1941-1945 (Entry 183)

Among the subjects covered are Jews in occupied Europe (decimal 291.2). Arranged according to

the War Department decimal classification scheme.

Boxes 1-67 location: 390/9/33/06

Formerly Top Secret Correspondence 1945-1947 (Entry 184)

Among the subjects in this series are conditions in and U.S. policy towards Argentina

(decimal 091). The records are arranged according the War Department decimal classification

 

25 Proposal by Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau for controlling postwar Germany by converting

the concentration of heavy industry to agriculture, to prevent Germany from being able to start World War III. His

plan is printed as the first few pages of Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Germany Is Our Problem (New York and London:

Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1945).
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scheme.

Boxes 1-2 location: 390/9/35/02

Cross Indexes 1946-1947 (Cross-Reference Sheets to the Formerly Security-Classified

Correspondence) (Entry 185)

Sheets give the decimal number under which the document is filed, decimals in this series

under which identical index sheets are filed, date and subject of document, name of writer and

addressee, summary of document’s content, and disposition made of document. Duplicates of

sheets in this series are filed with the correspondence in Entry 186. Arranged according to the War

Department decimal classification scheme.

Boxes 1-13 location: 390/9/35/02

Formerly Security-Classified Correspondence of Howard Petersen 1945-1947 (Entry 186)

This series includes both Petersen’s classified and unclassified correspondence for the

period December 1945-August 1947 and his top secret correspondence from December 1945

through August 1946. Much of the correspondence is with the Department of State, Civil Affairs

Division of the War Department Special Staff, Office of Military Government for Germany (U.S.),

and Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP). Among the subject covered are the

revival of the economies of Germany and Austria (decimal 091.31) and the care, evacuation, and

resettlement of Jews and other displaced persons and refugees (decimal 291.2 and 383.7).

Arranged according to the War Department decimal classification scheme.

Boxes 1-39 location: 390/9/35/04

Formerly Security-Classified Office File of Howard Petersen (Entry 187)

Among the records are those relating to Petersen’s trip to Germany in October 1946 to

examine the economy of and the military government for Germany and the problem of displaced

persons. The records are arranged alphabetically by subject. Boxes 1-2 location: 390/10/1/02

Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs (RG 165)

During World War II the War Department General and Special Staffs were concerned with policy-making

and planning on the highest level and with supervising all aspects of the military establishment, including

the intelligence system. General George C. Marshall was the Chief of Staff from September 1, 1939 until

November 18, 1945. He was succeeded by General Dwight D. Eisenhower, who served until July 26,

1947.

Records of the Office of the Chief of Staff

Correspondence

Security-Classified General Correspondence 1942-1947 (Entry 13)

Arranged in four chronological subseries: 1) 1942-1943; 2) 1944-1945; 3) 1946; and, 4)

1947, and thereunder by the War Department decimal classification scheme. Included in the

1942-1943 records is a project series arranged alphabetically by geographic locations and areas,

and thereunder by the War Department decimal classification scheme.

Boxes 28-387 location: 390/30/4/01

Top-Secret Card Index to Correspondence to the Top-Secret General Correspondence

(Entry 14)

Arranged in four chronological subseries: 1) 1941-1943; 2) 1944-1945; 3) 1946; and, 4)
25

1947, and thereunder according to the War Department decimal classification scheme.

Boxes 1-10 location: 390/30/15/02

Top-Secret General Correspondence 1941-1947 (Entry 15)

Arranged in four chronological subseries: 1) 1941-1943; 2) 1944-1945; 3) 1946; and, 4)

1947, and thereunder according to the War Department decimal classification scheme. Included in

the 1941-1943 records is a project series arranged alphabetically by geographic locations and

areas, and thereunder by the War Department decimal classification scheme.

Boxes 1-11; 1-16; 1-5; and 1-5 location: 390/30/15/03

Records of the Military Intelligence Division

The Military Intelligence Division (MID) was responsible for the collection, evaluation,

and dissemination of military information, and among its major staff duties from 1939 to 1945,

included the supervision of United States military attaches and military missions abroad, liaison

with military attaches and missions in Washington from accredited foreign countries, negative (or

counterintelligence) as well as positive intelligence work, and participation in joint intelligencecollection activities with the Navy and with other agencies of the Federal Government.

The March 1942 reorganization of the War Department included a major overhaul of the

MID. The Intelligence Branch was replaced by the Military Intelligence Service (MIS), which

assumed principal responsibility for collecting, evaluating, and disseminating intelligence

information. Additional changes followed during the war, so that by 1944 MIS consisted of the

following major components: 1) Information Group 2) Intelligence Group; 3) Administrative

Group; and, 4) Counterintelligence Group.

MID records for the interwar period largely consist of a central correspondence file, with

associated indexes. The pre-1942 records, for the most part, are located in the Archives I Building

and are serviced by the Textual Reference Branch within that building.26

Formerly Security-Classified Intelligence Reference Publications (“Regional File”) 

Received From U.S. Military Attaches, Military and Civilian Agencies of the United States,

Foreign Governments, and Other Sources, 1922-1944 (Entry 77)

The records are arranged alphabetically by name or country or region and thereunder

according to a numeric-subject filing scheme initially prepared by MID in 1920 as the Index

Guide for Classification of Military Information. This index organized intelligence materials

for a particular country or region into general and secondary subject categories, each of which was

assigned four-digit numerical designations. In the 1940 edition of the index, information was

organized into nine general categories: Geographic (1000-1320); Population and Social Conditions

(2000-2950); Political (3000-3870); Economic (4000-5070); National Defense (5900-5990); Army

(6000-6970); Navy (7000-7945); Air-Civil (8000-8290); and, Air-Military (9900-9960). 

For each country or region, additional miscellaneous subject files, correspondence, or

memorandums are often appended to the end of the numeric-subject files. The Numerical Series

of Intelligence Documents (“ID File”), which began in June 1944, was the successor to this series.

 See Records of the Army Staff (RG 319) for the “ID” File.

 

26 Among the records are the Formerly Security-Classified Correspondence and Reports, 1917-1941 (1,810

ft.); Formerly Security-Classified Record Cards for the Unclassified and Formerly Security Classified General

Correspondence, 1917-1941 (75 ft.); Formerly Security-Classified Name Index (378 ft.), Subject Index (103 ft.), and

Geographic Name Index (10 ft.) to Correspondence of the Military Intelligence Division, 1917-1941.
26

Box # Country and/or Subject

78-120 Argentina location: 390/31/11/06

146-149 Austria location: 390/31/13/01

150 Axis; folder entitled “Misc Axis Key Laws, Decrees and

Regulations” contains a publication entitled “Key Laws, Decrees

and Regulations Issued by the Axis in Occupied Europe.” It was

produced by the Reoccupation Division of the Blockade Branch of

the Board of Economic Warfare, December 1942. location:

390/31/13/02

1051-1377 Germany location: 390/32/1/07

1936-2040 Italy location: 390/32/25/04

2271-2371 Latin America location: 390/32/33/06

2837-2853 Portugal location: 390/33/10/03

2900-2945 Spain location: 390/33/11/05

2968-2997 Sweden location: 390/33/12/07

2998-3007 Switzerland location: 390/33/13/05

3035-3062 Turkey location: 390/33/14/03

Formerly Security-Classified Intelligence Reference Publications (“P” File)

Received From U.S. Military Attaches, Military and Civilian Agencies of the United States,

Foreign Government and Other Sources, 1940-1945 (Entry 79)

This series includes intelligence report series issued by Allied, British, and U.S. operations

commands; intelligence bulletins and reports periodically issued by specific Allied and U. S.

organizations and agencies; and individual publications or special reports. The records are

arranged in 24 alphabetical subseries (A-W), thereunder generally in alphabetical order by title,

operational command (often by acronym), subject, country, or organization, and thereunder

chronologically or numerically by report or publication number. A Continuation of the “P” File is

located in Records of the Army Staff (RG 319).

Box # File/Publication Title

776 Economic Intelligence Summaries-SHAEF [Supreme Headquarters Allied

Expeditionary Forces] Nos 1-34 1944-1945 Summary Report #29, dated

March 21, 1945 contains information on “Allied Economic Relations with

Switzerland.” location: 390/34/1/07

Economic Intelligence Weekly produced by the Economic Advisory Branch

of the British Foreign Office. Nos. 1-14. 1945 location: 390/34/1/07

780 Economic Warfare-Blacklist location: 390/34/2/01

Economic Warfare-Blockade location: 390/34/2/01

780-784 Economic Warfare Intelligence Reports-From the Economic Warfare

Division, American Embassy, London location 390/34/2/01

784-787 Economic Warfare-Safehaven Reports-From the Economic Warfare

Division, American Embassy, London location: 390/34/2/02

894-899 Federal Bureau of Investigation Reports regarding operations in Central and

South America ca.1943-1945. Most of the records relate to Brazil, Costa

Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, and Peru. location: 390/34/4/03

906 Finance Section Reports 1-8 Civil Affairs Branch HQ 12th Army Group

June 6, 1944-September 28, 1944 location: 390/34/4/05
27

Financial Bulletin (folder marked as such) contains “Credit Suisse Zurich27

Financial Bulletin 1944” which is an English language edition of the Bank’s

Financial Bulletin of December 1944. location: 390/34/4/05

924-948 Foreign Economic Administration records. location: 390/34/5/01

These records are reports prepared by the Foreign Economic Administration.

 Included are Report BL-141 “Smuggling Activities of Suspected Firms,

Individuals, and Ships, by Commodity and Country,” (Box 924); Report BL189 “SwissExport of Arms and Machinery Items to the Enemy,” (Box 924);

Report EIS-23 “Property of the Nazi Party; its Affiliates, Members, and

Supporters in Germany,” (Box 926); Report EIS-25 “Property Transferred

Under the Nazi Regime in Germany,” (Box 926); Report EIS-68 “German

Economic Penetration and Exploitation of Southeastern Europe,” (Box 927);

Report EP-37 “Materials Inventory of the European Axis,” (Box 931);

Report “Looted Art in Occupied Territories and Neutral Countries and Latin

America, Preliminary Report,”5 May 1945 (Box 932); and, Report ES-7

“German Economic Interests in Chile.” (Box 934) Most of the reports in

Boxes 935 to 948 relate to economic warfare against Japan and industry in

Germany.

958 Fortnightly Summary of General Political and Economic Situation in

Europe, Far East, Americas, United Nations. three folders 1944-1945 

location: 390/34/5/05

1066 G-5 Weekly Intelligence Summary and Weekly Journal of Information

SHAEF February-May 1945 location: 390/34/7/07

1082 German banking in 1944 prepared by Ministry of Economic Warfare May 5,

1945 location: 390/34/8/03

1090 German Press on Portugal and Spain prepared by British Embassy, Lisbon

June 15, 1944 location: 390/34/8/03

1272-

1274

M.E.W. Intelligence Weekly prepared by Ministry of Economic Warfare

1942-1945 location: 390/34/11/07

1335 La Suisse en Armes [1939-1945] hardback book written in French and

published in 1945.location: 390/34/13/02

1350-

1363

Justice Department-Economic Warfare Section Records 1942-1945 location:

390/34/13/05

1604 Notes on Economic Intelligence prepared by Foreign Office and Ministry of

Economic Warfare, 4 folders, 1943-1945 location: 390/34/18/06

1933 Proclaimed List of German Blocked Nationals and other proclaimed Lists of

Certain Blocked Nationals prepared by Department of Justice 1941-1945 

location: 390/34/25/04

1935 Program for German Economic and Industrial Disarmament-Final Report

with Appendices prepared by the Enemy Branch of the Foreign Economic

Administration December 20, 1945 location: 390/34/25/04

1989 Report on German Reparation to the President of the United States

February-September 1945, a printed bound copy of the report prepared by

the United States Representative and Associate Representative on the Allied

Commission on Reparations September 20, 1945 location: 390/34/26/05

2051 Safehaven Targets No. 1-21 (1945) and Safehaven Intercepts No. 8 1945

 

27 One of the three major Swiss banks. Founded in 1856 and headquartered in Zurich, it opened an

American branch in 1940. 
28

prepared by the Foreign Economic Administration location: 390/34/27/07

2052-

2053

Scavenger Special Reports prepared by G-2 SHAEF 1945 location:

390/34/27/07

2181 State Department Special Interrogation Mission, 3 folders of Interrogations

September-November 1945 location: 390/34/30/05

2237 Summary of Enemy Economic Developments prepared by the Ministry of

Economic Warfare December 29, 1941. Contains a section entitled

“German Economic Relations with European Neutrals.” location:

390/34/31/06

2404 Copies of various Treasury-printed reports relating to a Census of Foreign

Owned Assets in the United States [1941], documents pertaining to Foreign

Funds Control, and the monetary and financial conference held at Bretton

Woods,1944. location: 390/34/35/02

Records of the Captured Personnel and Material Branch28

Formerly Security-Classified Interrogation Reports and Correspondence on Prisoners of War

(MIS-Y) 1943-1945 (Entry 179)

The records in this series constitutes a general reference collection of interrogations and

intelligence reports received or collected by the Branch in Washington, DC. The series is

organized into several subseries.

Reports-Various

Box # File Title

743 Military Intelligence Service Report on Safehaven location:

390/35/15/01

745 State Department Special Interrogations (2 files) location: 390/35/15/

Records of the Office of the Director of Intelligence G-2

Records of Subordinate Offices

Records of the Latin American Branch

Formerly Security-Classified General Correspondence 1940-1946

(Entry 188)

This series relates to suspected pro-Axis activities of individuals and organizations

throughout Latin America; investigations of specific incidents of espionage and sabotage; overt

activities of Nazi Party organizations in Latin America; and data on the arrest, deportation, and

internment of individuals. Arranged in the following subseries: 1) alphabetically by name of

country; 2) by general subject area (activities, censorship, deportations and internments) and

thereunder alphabetically by country; 3) Federal Bureau of Investigation reports for specific

countries; 4) Spanish diplomatic and political activities, thereunder by country; and, 5) suspects

(individuals), thereunder by country.

Boxes 966-1007 location: 390/35/17/05

Records of the Operations Division (OPD)

The War Plans Division (WPD), renamed the Operations Division (OPD) in March 1942,

was responsible for preparing the Army’s strategical, logistical, and operational plans and for

 

28 Throughout most of the war designated the Prisoner of War Branch.
29

assisting the Chief of Staff in the coordination and direction of operations in the overseas

departments, 1939-1942, and the theatres of operation, 1942-1945. The Operations Division

coordinated, planned, and developed current and future operations in conjunction with the Joint

Chiefs of Staff and the Combined Chiefs of Staff, on whose committees it was usually represented.

Security-Classified General Correspondence 1942-1945 (Entry 418)

Arranged in three subseries: 1) arranged according to the War Department decimal

classification scheme, 2) “201" name file arranged alphabetically by surname, and 3) “project

file” arranged alphabetically by subject thereunder chronologically.

Boxes 310-1920 location: 390/36/20/01

Boxes 962-963 Switzerland (mainly related to alleged violations of American violations

of Swiss neutrality) April 1944-December 1945 location: 390/36/33/04

Top Secret General Correspondence, 1942-1945 (Entry 419)

Arranged according to the War Department decimal classification scheme and thereunder 

chronologically.

Boxes 1-178 location: 390/37/18/01

Box # File # and Title

143 OPD 336 TS (1945) Sec. III Case 67 - Transfer of German Gold to State

National Bank at Bern. location: 390/37/20/07

166 OPD 386.3 TS (1945) Sec. I Case 1 - Disposition of Treasure Captured in

Germany. location: 390/37/21/03

Card Index to Correspondence in Series 421 (Entry 420)

Arranged alphabetically by arm of service or subject and thereunder according to the War

Department decimal classification scheme. Among the subjects are: Economic Warfare, Board;

Gold-Miscellaneous.; Jews; Neutrals; Portugal; Restitution; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Turkey;

War Refugee Board; and Winant [American Ambassador to Great Britain] For other topics please

see listing in the consultation area in Room 2400.

Boxes 1-98 location: 390/B/4/03

Top-Secret “American-British-Canadian” Correspondence (Known as the “ABC” File”) Relating

to the Organizational Planning and General Combat Operations During World War II and the

Early Postwar Period 1940-1948 (Entry 421)

Arranged according to the War Department classification scheme and thereunder chronologically.

Boxes 1-634 location: 390/37/24/03

Records of the War Department Special Staff

Records of the Civil Affairs Division

General Records

Cross-Reference Sheets to Correspondence in Entry 463 March 1943-July 1949

(Entry 462)

Arranged in five chronological subseries and thereunder according to the War Department

decimal classification scheme: 1) March 1943-August 1945 (at the end of this series there is a

group of cross-reference cards arranged alphabetically by name of foreign city or country); 2)

August 1945-June 10, 1946; 3) June 11, 1946-December 1947; 4) January-December 1948; and,
30

5) January-July 1949.

Boxes 1-21 location: 390/38/21/03

Security-Classified General Correspondence 1943-July 1949 (Entry 463)

Arranged in five chronological subseries described in Entry 462 and thereunder according

to the War Department decimal classification scheme.

Boxes 1-541 location: 390/38/35/05

Cross-Reference Sheets to the Correspondence in Entry 465 1946-July 1949 (Entry 464)

Arranged in three chronological subseries: 1) 1946-1947, 2) 1948, and, 3) January-July

1949.

Boxes 1-10 location: 390/39/11/06

Top Secret General Correspondence 1946-July 1949 (Entry 465)

Arranged in three chronological subseries: 1) 1946-1947, 2) 1948, and, 3) January-July

1949.

Boxes 1-4 location: 390/39/11/07

Top Secret Incoming and Outgoing Messages November 1942-July 1949 (Entry 466)

Arranged according to “incoming” and “outgoing” and thereunder chronologically.

Boxes 14-28 location: 390/39/12/02

Security-Classified Office File of the Executive Officer January 1943-June 1946 (Entry 467)

Arranged alphabetically by subject.

Boxes 542-547 location: 390/39/12/05

Security-Classified Papers of the Army Member of the Combined Civil Affairs Committee

(CCAC) January 1942-June 1949 (Entry 468)

Arranged alphabetically by name of committee or subcommittee and thereunder 

numerically by paper number.

Boxes 548-638 location: 390/39/12/05

Security-Classified Transcripts of Teletype Conversations Relating to Military Government and

Civil Affairs Functions February 5, 1946-June 13, 1949 (Entry 469)

Arranged numerically by teletype number and thereunder chronologically.

Boxes 741-768 location: 390/39/14/05

Records of the Policy and Government Branch

Security-Classified Policy and Planning Correspondence Relating to the Administration and

Operation of Government in Liberated and Occupied Areas 1943-1947 (Entry 471)

Arranged alphabetically by subject.

Boxes 769-790, and 1-6 location: 390/39/17/03

Records of the Information Branch
31

Security-Classified War Refugee Board (WRB)29 and Other Messages Relating to the International

Refugee Organization Program and the Activities of the Preparatory Commission of the

International Refugee Organization (PCIRO) July 1944-June 1948 (Entry 475)

Arranged chronologically.

Boxes 853-860 location: 390/39/18/03

Security-Classified General Correspondence of Col. D. H. Frost Relating to the Operation and

Functions of the International Refugee Organization (IRO) and the Occupational Skills of

Refugees under the Preparatory Commission of the International Refugee Organization (IRO)

1944-1952 (Entry 476)

Arranged in two alphabetical subseries: 1) by name of country (“Country File”) 

and, 2) by subject.

Boxes 809-852 location: 390/39/18/04

Records of the Intelligence Group

Correspondence, Reports, Directives, and Other Records Relating to the Activities and Functions

of the Intelligence Group 1943-1947 (Entry 203)

Arranged alphabetically by subject.

Boxes 781-796 location: 390/35/22/05

Security-Classified Correspondence from U.S. Government Agencies and Foreign Sources 

Requesting Specific Military, Political, and Informational Data 1945-1949 (Entry 204)

Arranged in two alphabetical subseries: 1) by Government office and 2) by agency 

and thereunder numerically.

Boxes 815-846 location: 390/35/22/07

Miscellaneous Records

Shuster Files (Entry UD 27)

This series consists of post-World War II interrogation reports of German military officers

and other German leaders. Boxes 1-9 location: 390/35/15/06

Name of Person Interrogated Subject of Interrogation

Amann, Max30 Conversation with Bargen, Werner von

Political Conditions in Belgium during the

German Occupation

Bechtel, Heinrich31 Hitler and Economists

Dorsch, Xaver32 The Organization Todt33

 

29 The War Refugee Board (WRB) was established within the Executive Office of the President by

Executive Order 9417 of January 22, 1944. The WRB developed, in cooperation with other Federal agencies, plans

and programs and initiated measures for the rescue, transportation, maintenance, and relief of victims of Axis

oppression, and established havens of temporary refuge for such victims. The Board worked with foreign

governments to gain their participation in the Board’s plans and programs. The membership of the board included

the Secretaries of State, War, and the Treasury. The Board was terminated by Executive Order 9614 of September

14, 1945.

30 Besides being a leader of the Nazi press he served as Hitler’s personal banker.

31 Professor of Economics, Munich Technical College.
32

Finck, August von34 Private Banks

Frank, Philip35 Position of Banks under the Nazi-Regime

Frick, Wilhelm36 Interrogation and Conversations with

Funk, Walter Economic and Financial Questions

Geist, Friedrich Economic Preparations for War

Goering, Hermann Interrogations of

Hayler, Franz37 The Organization of the Economy and the

Civilian Sector

Hettlage, Karl38 Financial Questions;...War Finance

Hettlage, Karl Impressions of the Reich Ministry of Finance and

the attitude of the Nazi Party toward Financial

Problems

Ilau, Hans39 Economic War Preparations

Jecht, Horst Economic Policy

Kehrl, Hans War Economic Planning

Keppler, Wilhelm40 Hitler’s Economic Adviser

Krosigk, Graf 41 Questions on State Finances

Lahousen, Erwin State Department Special Interrogation Mission

Schacht, Hjalmar42 Economic and Financial Questions

Schwarz, Franz Xaver43 Functions as party Treasurer

Warlimont, Walter44 The German War Economic Organization

Zinnemann, Dr.45 Creation and Development of the War Economic

Organization of the OKW

 

32 Chief of the Field Command of the OT, Ministerial Director in the Reich Ministry for Armaments and

War Production.

33 Semi-military government agency under Fritz Todt concerned with the construction of strategic highways

and military installations.

34 Banking firm of Merck, Finck & Co., Munich and Berlin.

35 Manager of the Deutsche Bank for Mannheim, Heidelberg, and Southwestern Germany.

36 Reich Minister of the Interior from 1933 to 1943, and from August 24, 1943 until the end of the war

served as Reichsprotekto of Bohemia and Moravia.

37 State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Economics.

38 Financial and Economic Advisor to the Reich Minister for Armaments and War Production.

39 Former Economic Editor of the Frankfurter Zeitung. 40 Hitler’s personal adviser on economic affairs and the chief liaison between the Nazi Party and the

business world. 

41 Reich Minister for Finance

42 Former Reich Minister of Economics and President of the Reichsbank. Hitler reappointed Schacht as

Reichsbank President in March 1933 (having served in that capacity from December 1923 till 1930) and then as

Minister of Economics, a position he held from 1934 to 1937. He was appointed Plenipotentiary-General for the

War Economy on May 21, 1935, and proceeded to direct the economic preparations for war. Schacht was dismissed

as Reichsbank President on January 20, 1939. He served as Minister without Portfolio until January 1943.

43 Treasurer of the Nazi party.

44 Former Deputy chief of the Armed Forces Operations Staff, OKW. OKW (Oberkommando der

Wehrmacht) was the High Command of the entire Armed Forces.

45 Official of the Wehrwirtschaftsamt (War Economy), OKW.
33

Records of the Army Staff (RG 319)

The Army Staff was established in the Department of the Army by the Army Organization Act of 1950

(June 28), as the collective name for all organizations responsible to the Chief of Staff, United States

Army. The Army Staff provides advice to the Secretary, Under Secretary, and Assistant Secretaries of the

Army. It supervises the planning, execution, and review of all Army programs. Some of the records in

this record group were created by predecessor military organizations.

Records of the Army Chief of Staff, Intelligence (G-2)

Records of the Administrative Division

Army Intelligence Top Secret Decimal File 1942-1952 (Entry 47)

Boxes 1-16 location: 270/4/18/02

Army Intelligence Decimal File 1941-1948 (Entry 47B)

Boxes 1-1336 location: 270/4/18/04-270/5/11/01

Cross Reference Sheets to Army Intelligence Project Decimal File 1941-1945 (Entry 46)

16mm microfilm (1,000 rolls) index to Entry 47C.

Boxes 1-18 location: 270/15/3/04

Army Intelligence Project Decimal File 1941-1945 (Entry 47C)

Box #s Country and/or Subject

111 M/A [US Military Attache] Argentina location: 270/5/13/03

127 M/A Germany; location: 270/5/13/06

137 M/A Italy location: 270/5/13/07

144 M/A Portugal location: 270/5/14/01

146 M/A Spain location: 270/5/14/01

147 M/A Sweden location: 270/5/14/01

148 M/A Switzerland; location: 270/5/14/02

149 M/A Turkey location: 270/5/14/02

163-180 Argentina. location: 270/5/14/04

189 Austria

190-203 Axis location: 270/5/15/01

459-542 Germany location: 270/5/20/04

780-796 Italy location: 270/5/27/01

841-850 Latin America; location: 270/5/28/03

959-967 Portugal location: 270/5/30/06

1004-1010 Spain location: 270/5/31/05

1013-1015 Sweden location: 270/5/31/07

1016-1020 Switzerland location: 270/5/31/07

1023-1034 Turkey location: 270/5/32/01

(Supplementary Material)

1365 Argentina location: 270/6/4/01

1369-1370 Axis location: 270/6/4/02

1392-1420 Germany location: 270/6/4/05

1525-1539 Italy location: 270/6/7/03

1563-1565 Latin America; location: 270/6/8/01
34

1584-1591 Portugal location: 270/6/8/04

1594 Spain location: 270/6/8/06

1595-1596 Sweden location: 270/6/8/06

1596 Switzerland; location: 270/6/8/06

1597-1600 Turkey location: 270/6/806

Army Intelligence Project Decimal File 1946-1947 (Entry 47D)

Box # Country and/or Subject

1 Military Attache [United States Military Attache] Argentina location:

270/6/10/02

18 Military Attache, Italy location: 270/6/10/04

24 Military Attache, Portugal location: 270/6/10/05

25 Military Attache, Spain location: 270/6/10/05

26 Military Attache, Switzerland location: 270/6/10/06

27 Military Attache, Sweden location: 270/6/10/06

29 Military Attache, Turkey location: 270/6/10/06

Other Correspondence Relating to:

114-117 Argentina location: 270/6/12/04

180-186 Germany location: 270/6/13/07

234-238 Italy location: 270/6/14/07

266 Portugal location: 270/6/15/05

269 Spain location: 270/6/15/05

269-271 Sweden location: 270/6/15/05

272 Switzerland location: 270/6/15/06

273-275 Turkey location: 270/6/15/06

Confidential and Secret Incoming and Outgoing Messages 1942-1945 (Entry 57)

Box # Country

61-64 Argentina location: 270/6/35/01

86-88 Austria location: 270/6/35/04

274-293 Germany location: 270/7/4/04

460-503 Italy location: 270/7/9/02

562-570 Portugal location: 270/7/10/02

594-601 Spain location: 270/7/10/07

602-610 Sweden location: 270/7/11/01

611-631 Switzerland location: 270/7/11/02

635-643 Turkey location: 270/7/11/06

Incoming and Outgoing Messages 1946 (entry 57)

Box # Country

130 Portugal location: 270/7/16/03

142-143 Spain location: 270/7/16/05

144-145 Sweden location: 270/7/16/05

145-147 Switzerland location: 270/7/16/05

635-643 Turkey location: 270/7/11/06

Incoming and Outgoing Messages 1947 (Entry 57)
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Boxes 57-58 Switzerland; location: 270/7/18/04

Incoming and Outgoing Messages 1948 (Entry 57)

Boxes 55-56 Switzerland; location: 270/7/20/03

Incoming and Outgoing Messages 1949 (Entry 57)

Boxes 74-76 Switzerland; location: 270/7/22/04

Incoming and Outgoing Messages 1950 (Entry 57)

Boxes 62-63 Switzerland; location: 270/7/24/03

Top Secret Incoming and Outgoing Cables 1942-1952 (Entry 58) (1942-1945)

Box # Country Name

1 Argentina location: 270/7/26/02

2 Austria location: 270/7/26/02

13-14 Germany location: 270/7/26/03

26-31 Italy location: 270/7/26/03

35-36 Portugal location: 270/7/26/06

40 Spain; Sweden location: 270/7/26/07

41 Switzerland; Turkey location: 270/7/26/07

(1946)

63 Argentina, Austria location: 270/7/27/03

68-72 Germany location: 270/7/27/04

75-78 Italy location: 270/7/27/05

85 Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey location: 270/7/27/07

(1947)

103 Portugal location: 270/7/28/02

104 Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey location: 270/7/28/02

(1948)

124 Spain, Sweden, Switzerland location: 270/7/28/05

(1949)

140 Switzerland; location: 270/7/28/07

Records of the Collecting and Dissemination Division

Records of the Document Library Branch

Reports and Messages 1918-1951(Entry 82A)

Box # File Title and/or Country

57 G-2 Survey: Argentina location: 270/10/8/06

111 G-2 Survey: Portugal location: 270/10/9/07

115-116 G-2 Survey: Spain location: 270/10/9/07

120 G-2 Survey: Turkey location: 270/10/10/01

125 Handbook: Austria location: 270/10/10/02

133-142 Handbook: Germany location: 270/10/10/03

146-150 Handbook: Italy location: 270/10/10/05

165 Handbook: Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey location: 270/10/11/01

455-519 Office of Strategic Service (OSS) Research and Analysis Reports

location: 270/10/16/07

521 OSS Surveys: Argentina location: 270/10/18/03

529 OSS Surveys: Italy location: 270/10/18/04
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533 OSS Surveys: Sweden location: 270/10/18/04

State Department (Messages and Reports)1943-1947

624-636 Argentina location: 270/10/20/03

643-645 Austria location: 270/10/20/06

787-795 Germany location: 270/10/23/06

885-950 Italy location: 270/10/25/06

1002-1005 Portugal location: 270/10/28/01

1014-1030 Spain location: 270/10/28/03

1032-1052 Sweden location: 270/10/28/06

1053-1064 Switzerland location: 270/10/27/02

1067-1078 Turkey location: 270/10/29/05

State Department (Annual Reports) 1947-1949

1118 Argentina location: 270/10/30/05

1119 Austria location: 270/10/30/05

1128 Germany location: 270/10/30/06

1134 Italy location: 270/10/30/07

1142 Portugal location: 270/10/31/01

1143 Spain, Sweden location: 270/10/31/01

1144 Switzerland location: 270/10/31/02

1145 Turkey location: 270/10/31/02

State Department (Telegrams)

1226 Argentina, Austria location: 270/10/32/06

1228 Germany location: 270/10/32/06

1229 Italy location: 270/10/32/06

1230 Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey location: 270/10/32/07

Formerly Security-Classified G-2 Intelligence Library “P” Publications Files (“P Files”)

1946-1951 (Entry 82)

Arranged alphabetically by title or organization name. 

Boxes 1-3816 location: 270/7/34/06

Note-Many of the reports by the American Military Governments in Austria and Germany

are not listed, unless they related to a specific topic. Researchers can locate the non-specific

reports by looking through the 3-volume listing of publications in the consultation area in Room

2400.

Box # Publication Title

141 Allied Intelligence in World War II location: 270/8/2/05

317-319 “Biographies of Leading German Bankers and Industrialists,”

prepared by the Program Planning Section, Foreign Funds Control,

Department of the Treasury 1946 location: 270/8/6/02

1045 Economic Warfare, Safehaven, London, England location:

270/8/21/01

1153 European Recovery Program County Studies: Introduction, Austria,

Switzerland, Sweden, Turkey location: 270/8/23/03

1517 Germans and Italians in Latin America location: 270/8/30/06

1693 IG Farben’s International Cartel Connections-Office of Military

Government; IG Farbenindustrie A-G Interests in Spain location:
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270/8/34/03

1789-1790 Intelligence Memorandum-Foreign Economic Administration

location: 270/9/1/03

1791 Intelligence Memorandum-State Department, 1946 (4 folders)

Intelligence Memorandum-State Department, Table of Contents,

1946 location: 270/9/1/03

1792 Intelligence Notes-Office of Military Government for Germany (US)

(OMGUS) 1946 (3 folders); location: 270/9/1/03

1795-1796 Intelligence Reports-Office of Military Government 1946-1948 (3

folders) location: 270/9/1/03

1847-1850 Intelligence Summary-European Command, 1946-1947 (3 folders);

1946-1948 (6 folders); 1946-1949 (6 folders); 1949 (5 folders)

location: 270/9/2/04

1854 Intelligence Summary-Office of Military Government, Berlin

District Intelligence Summary, Office of Military Government for

Germany location: 270/9/2/05

1885 International Committee for the Study of European Questions, 1947

location: 270/9/3/02

1886 International Conferences - State Department (3 folders) location:

270/9/3/02

1887 International Conferences and Meetings - State Department, 1947-

1949 (5 folders); location: 270/9/3/03

1888 International Conferences - State Department (2 folders) location:

270/9/3/03

983-1984 Interrogation Report Allied Commission, Austria (BE) location:

270/9/5/02

1985 Interrogation Report-Berlin District Interrogation Center location:

270/9/5/03

1986 CIR-Interrogation Report-Berlin District Interrogation Center

FIR-Interrogation Report-Berlin District Interrogation Center

OI-Interrogation Report-Berlin District Interrogation Center

Interrogation Report-Berlin District Interrogation Center location:

270/9/5/03

2005-2006 Interrogation Reports, Military Intelligence Service in Austria

location: 270/9/5/05

2010 Interrogation Report, OMGUS location: 270/9/5/06

2011 Interrogation Report, OSS location: 270/9/5/06

2027-2028 Interrogation Report, US Forces in Austria (FIR) location:

270/9/6/01

2028-2033 Interrogation Report[s], US Forces, European Theater location:

270/9/6/02

2039 Interrogation Summary, US Forces in Austria; location: 270/9/6/03

2178 Justice Department-Economic Warfare Section Reports Released for

Outside Distribution location: 270/9/9/02

2179 Justice Department-Economic Warfare Section, Statements of

Reports Released location: 270/9/9/02

2210 La Suisse en Armes, 1939/45 location: 270/9/9/07

2211 Latin American Intelligence Conference Report location: 270/9/9/07

2229 List of German External Assets Report-State Department location:

270/9/10/02
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2398 Monthly Report-Allied Commission, Finance Sub-Commission;

location: 270/9/13/05

2409 Monthly Report of Military Governor-Finance location: 270/9/13/07

2525 Nazi Party Membership Records: Afghanistan thru Belgium

location: 270/9/16/02

2526 Nazi Party Membership Records: Bolivia thru Chile location:

270/9/16/02

2527 Nazi Party Membership Records: Colombia thru France location:

270/9/16/03

2528 Nazi Party Membership Records: Greece thru Malta location:

270/9/16/03

2529 Nazi Party Membership Records: Netherlands thru Paraguay

location: 270/9/16/03

2530 Nazi Party Membership Records: Poland location: 270/9/16/03

2531 Nazi Party Membership Records: Portugal thru Sweden location:

270/9/16/03

2532 Nazi Party Membership Records: Thailand thru Venezuela location:

270/9/16/03

2574 Office of Military Government for Germany (US) -Abstracts of

German Documents; location: 270/9/17/02

2706 Personality List-Office of the Military Government Germany (US)

location: 270/9/19/07

2825 Project 60: Affairs in Sweden, 16 June 1944 location: 270/9/22/03

2826 Project 134: Argentine-Brazil Situation, 5 July 1944 location:

270/9/22/03

2827-2828 numerous projects related to Latin America 1944-1945 location:

270/9/22/03

2830 Project 367A: Political and Military Objectives of Argentina, 7

August 1944; location: 270/9/22/04

2832 Project 455: Estimate of Germany’s Capabilities for World

Conquest Through Economics, 23 August 1944. This study stressed

the value of waging economic warfare against the Axis, making the

point that military defeat alone was not sufficient to master

Germany; that its economic vitality was greater than that of other

European countries inclduing Great Britain. location: 270/9/22/04

Project 461: German Capabilities for Underground Operations

Following Surrender, 14 August 1944

Project 467: Economic Warfare-Factors, 23 August 1944

Project 471: Smuggling in Brazil, 4 November 1944

Project 488A: German Intelligence in the Iberian Peninsula, 28

August 1944 location: 270/9/22/04

2833 Project 541: Economic Aspects of Allied Zones of Responsibility in

Germany, 2 September 1944 location: 270/9/22/04

2834 Project 652: General Stuelpnagel’s Report on Germany’s Plans for

World War III, 16 September 1944

Project: 658: The Political Situation in Spain, 15 December 1944

Project 686: Political Intelligence Objectives in Germany, 4 October

1944

Project 686 cont.: Political Intelligence Objectives in Germany, 11

October 1944; 17 October 1944; 25 October 1944; 8 November
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1944; 15 November 1944

Project 686 cont.: List of Banks and Bankers for the Combined

Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee, 9 January 1945 location:

270/9/22/04

2845 Project 911: German Diplomatic Representatives in European

Countries, 18 January 1945 location: 270/9/22/06

2847 Project: 1098: Factors Which Make Spanish Morocco and Tangier

in Particular a Fertile Field for Axis Financial Penetration, 18

November 1944 location: 270/9/22/06

2850 various projects dealing with Argentina and other Latin American

countries December 1944-March 1945 location: 270/9/22/07

2851 Project 1306: German Plans for Economic Penetration into Neutral

and Allied Countries-Supplement No. 1 Turkey, 28 December 1944

location: 270/9/22/07

Project 1378: Swiss Supply Situation, 5 January 1945

Project 1436: Free Germany Movement in Latin America, 30

January 1945

Project 1464: German Insurance Companies-Suggested Control, 19

January 1945 location: 270/9/22/07

2852 Project 1501A: German Blockade Running by Submarine From the

Far East, 24 January 1945 location: 270/9/22/07

2853 Project 1586: Evaluation of Reports of Economic Warfare Section,

War Division, Department of Justice, 17 February 1945 location:

270/9/22/07

2854 Project 1646: Problem Confronting SHAEF or ETO Should Nazis

Go Underground, 24 February 1945 location: 270/9/22/07

2855 Project: 1687: Axis Activities in Spain, 31 March 1945 location:

270/9/22/07

2856 Project 1738: Data on Dutch, Belgian, Portugal, Spanish, Swiss, and

Luxembourg Armies, 16 March 1945 location: 270/9/23/01

2858 Project 1877A: Data for Special Presentation on Sweden, 3 April

1945 location: 270/9/23/01

2859 Project 1946: Verification of Location of Salt Mines and

Construction in Germany, 17 April 194546 location: 270/9/23/01

2860 Project 1972: German Sabotage in South America, 24 April 1945

location: 270/9/23/01

2861 Project 2080: Who’s Who on Walter Schellenberg, OSS, 5 May

1945 location: 270/9/23/01

2869 Project 2275: Current Methods of Effecting transfer of Money and

Intangible Assets Among Various Countries, 25 June 1945 location:

270/9/23/02

2877 Project 2691: Bomb Damage in Switzerland, 1 November 1945;

location: 270/9/23/04

2880 Project: 2869: Economic Penetration of Latin America by European

Powers, 24 May 1946 location: 270/9/23/04

 

46 It was in German salt mines in early April 1945, that U.S. Army forces began finding Nazi loot, ranging

from gold bars to gold teeth to art works.
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2882 Project 2969: Blue Book on Argentina, 25 February 194647

Project 2981: Pattern of the SAFEHAVEN Project, 27 February

1946 location: 270/9/23/04

2884 Project 3078: Penetration of Foreign Trade into Latin America, 29

May 1946 location: 270/9/23/05

2885 Project 3158: Foreign Propaganda Organizations in Latin America,

10 May 1946; Project 3158 (Supplement): Foreign Intelligence

Organizations in Latin America, 10 May 1946 location:

270/9/23/05

2888 Project 3200: Swiss Military System, 15 May 1946

Project 3211: Swiss Armies Activities During World War II, 25

April 1946 location: 270/9/23/05

2896 Project 3641: Switzerland’s Citizen Army, 1 April 1947 location:

270/9/23/06

2902 Project 4019: The Military Defense of Switzerland, 8 February 1948

location: 270/9/23/07

3094 Rotterdamsche Bank location: 270/9/27/07

3205 Situation in Argentina location: 270/9/30/01

3231 Spanish Government and the Axis-State Department location:

270/9/30/05

3266 Staatskalender der Schweizersschen EidgensossenschaftSwitzerland (1947, 1948) location: 270/9/31/03

3270 Statement on Condition-National Bank of Czechoslovakia in Prague

location: 270/9/31/04

3291-3312 Strategic Intelligence Digest (arranged alphabetically by country)

location: 270/9/31/07

3369 Swiss Address Book of Industry location: 270/9/33/04

3370 Swiss Industry and Trade (magazine, 1947)

Swiss Technics (magazine, 1951)

Switzerland: A Short History Dedicated to the Members of the

American Forces Visiting Switzerland by the Swiss National Tourist

Office and the Swiss Office for the Development of Trade [1947?]

location: 270/9/3304

3374 Tangier Under the Protective Actions of Spain During World War

location: 270/9/33/05

3573 Treasury Department Documents Pertaining to Foreign Funds

Control

Treasury Department - Foreign Funds Control location:

270/10/2/05

3574-3576 Treaty Series (arranged alphabetically by country) location:

270/10/2/05

 

47 The Department of State on October 3, 1945, initiated consultation among the American republics

concerning the collaboration of Argentina with enemy agents for espionage and other activities damaging to the war

effort of the Allies. The results of the investigation, obtained from records of the U.S. Government, those of

Germany and Italy, and from interrogations of Germany and Italian officials responsible for activities in and with

respect to Argentina were set forth in a memorandum, Consultation Among the American Republics With Respect to

the Argentine Situation, commonly known as the “Argentine Blue Book.” For detailed records relating to the

publication, see the General Records of the Department of State (RG 59), under the heading “Records Relating to the

‘Argentine Blue Book’.”
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3619-3624 United States Forces, Austria, Interrogation-Austria; -

Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Rumania; U.S.S.R.; and,

Yugoslavia location: 270/10/3/05

3780 White Paper Regarding the Measures for the Currency

Rehabilitation in the Netherlands; location: 270/10/6/07

Formerly Security-Classified Numerical Series of Intelligence Documents (“ID File”)

June 1944-1955 (Entry 85A)

Arranged numerically (1-948,410) with some additional subseries and bulky files located

at the end of the series. The “ID” files, which succeeded the wartime “regional files,” relate for

the most part to the postwar period; ID numbers 1-205000 are most pertinent for the period June

1944-September 1945. Despite the indicated date period, a number of reports furnish intelligence

with effective dates as early as 1942. As with the regional files, the “ID” materials constitute

records originated by the Military Intelligence Service and its subordinate organizations, together

with intelligence data supplied by other U.S. Army, Navy, and civilian organizations and by

British and other Allied intelligence agencies. Many individual reports in this series have been

withdrawn or transferred to other intelligence collections, usually indicated by a withdrawal sheet.

Boxes 1-10140, and Box 9866A location: 270/10/33/1

Formerly Top Secret Intelligence Documents 1943-1959 (Special Distribution [SD] and

Top Secret [TSC])

Boxes 1-258 location: 631/58/43/03

Special Distribution Intelligence Documents

Boxes 1-6 location: 631/58/48/04

Security Classified Microfilm Copy of Cross-Reference Sheets to Part of Entry 85

(May-December 1944) (Entry 89)

Boxes 1-28 location: 631/26/7/01

Geographic Index to Numerical Series of Intelligence Documents (“ID” File) 1944-1951

 (Entry A1 84E)

This index is composed of 3-by-5-inch cards which are arranged by country and

thereunder by the Basic Intelligence Directive (BID) System. Under this system file number

“4107.0204" is used for “prevention of secretion and cloaking of enemy assets within own

territories for warfare purposes or post-war refuge. Prevention of secretion and cloaking of enemy

assets in foreign country (friendly to them but enemy to U.S.) for future warfare purposes or postwar refuge; safehaven.” A copy of the BID system is available in the consultation area in Room

2400.

Boxes 1-212 location: 631/56/45/01

Subject, Title, or Source Index to the “P,” “ID,” and “SD” Files 1944-1951

(Entry A1 84F)

Boxes 1-100 location: 631/56/47/05

Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) Collection

The predecessor of the Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) was the Military Intelligence

Service’s Counterintelligence Branch (before March 1942 designated the Counterintelligence

Branch, G-2), which supervised the general counterintelligence activities of the CIC detachments
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in the field. CIC Detachments were quite active in post-war activities in Germany and Austria in

efforts to locate war criminals, Nazi records, and looted property. Many of NARA’s holdings

concern investigations of foreign individuals and organizations during and after the war. 

Declassified records have generally been “sanitized” to protect security-classified information and

still remain subject to NARA restrictions on privileged information.

Records of the Investigatory Records Repository

The records of the Investigatory Records Repository (IRR) are arranged in two series: the

impersonal and the personal name files. The impersonal files include files on a number of subjects

and organizations; the personal name files includes dossiers on individuals.

IRR Case Files : Impersonal Files

This series includes reports, memorandums, interrogations, interviews, cables, affidavits,

and other records collected in the investigation of individuals and organizations. Many case files

relate to German wartime intelligence, security, and special forces organizations and operations. 

The following files have been declassified:

Box # File # File Title

7 XE135014 German Intelligence in Portugal

10 XE030277 Portugal, NSDAP48 Membership Records

12 XE003920 German Intelligence Service in Spain

15 XE219286 Search of Known Caves in US Zones

37 XE003500 Swiss Traitors August 1945-March 1946 v. 1

40 XC500871 Counterintelligence Corps Historical Information March

1945-June 1949 v. 1

45A no number SHAEF G-2 Weekly Intelligence Reports: #43-48, #50,

January 14, 1945-March 4, 1945

45B no number SHAEF G-2 Weekly Intelligence Reports: #51-56, #59,

March 11, 1945-May 6, 1945 location: 631/31/52/01

IRR Case Files: Personal Files

The personal files are arranged alphabetically by the last name of the individual. For a

complete listing of the name see the finding aid for this series in the consultation area of Room

2400.

Boxes 1-614 location: 631/31/54/04

Thomas M. Johnson Memorial Files (Entry UD 1075)

Boxes 1-30 location: 631/53/20/05

Historians’ Source Files of CIC Publications (Entry UD 1076)

Boxes 1-5 location: 631/53/21/03

Organizational History Files (Entry UD 1077)

Boxes 1-90 location: 631/53/21/03

Card Index to “The History of the Counter Intelligence Corps in the United States Army,

1917-1953" (Entry UD 1079)

 

48 NSDAP (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei): The National Socialist German Workers’ party,

full title of the Nazi Party.
43

Boxes 1-14 location: 631/53/27/06

Historians’ Master Copy “The History of the CIC in the United States Army, 1917-1953" (Entry

UD 1080)

Boxes 1-10 location: 631/53/28/01

Historian’s Background Material Files (Entry UD 1082)

Boxes 1-15 location: 631/53/27/01

Command Reporting Files (Entry UD 1083)

Boxes 1-25 location: 631/53/28/02

Historian’s Background Files Concerning CIC History (Entry UD 1084)

Boxes 1-35 location: 631/53/28/06

Numbered CIC Reports (Entry UD 1085)

Boxes 1-14 location: 631/53/29/04

Historian’s Miscellaneous Source Files (Entry UD 1087)

Boxes 1-7 location: 631/53/29/06

Historian’s Background Files For Advice and Support: The Early Years, 1940-1962

(Entry UD 1089)

Boxes 1-27 location: 631/56/40/05

Records of the Office of the Chief of Foreign Financial Affairs

General Correspondence 1942-1964

Boxes 1-185 location: 631/36/3/03

Records Relating to the Foreign Financial Affairs Office 1942-1951 (Entry 207)

Boxes 383-487 location: 631/35/69/05

Records of the Adjutant General’s Office, 1917- (RG 407)

During World War II the Adjutant General’s Office provided, in War Department headquarters and at the

major echelons in the Army, several administrative services.

Records of the Administrative Services Division

Records of the Operations Branch

Index to Occupied Area Reports (Entry 368)

Boxes 1-3 location: 270/69/22/07

Foreign (Occupied) Area Reports 1945-1954 (Entry 368B)

Boxes 998-2304 location: 270/69/23/01

Box 1018A location: 270/B/22/04

Box 1106A location: 270/B/22/04

Box and folder lists are available for Boxes 1000-1099 (all pertain to Germany), 1116-

2304. Only a small sampling of files are listed below.
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Box # File Title or Subject

1005 Displaced persons

1013 Robert Bosch GmbH (external assets-Germany)

1018-1020 External assets

1020 German Economic Interests in Portugal

Report on German properties in Japan

Report on August von Finck

1021-1024 External Assets

1024 Camouflaging of German External Assets

1025 External Assets

1026 External Assets-Deutsche Gold und Silber

Scheideanstalten Dresdner Bank Investigation

1027-1028 External Assets

1028 Interests and activities in Argentina

1028-1030 Report on the Investigation of the Deutsche Bank

1030-1031 External Assets - I.G. Farben

1031 Value of Gold and Silver Bullion and Coin held by

Commanding General, USFET at the Reichsbank

Building in Frankfurt, Volume I Report 19 August 1945

(50 pages) Volumes II and III are located in Box 1034.

1031-1032 External Assets

1033 External Assets, Hermann Georing to Report on Gold of

the Sparkasse Luxembourg

External Assets of Hermann Georing. Contains several

Safehaven reports

The Hidden Gold-Reserve program Initiated by the

German Reichsbank during Schacht’s Second Term in

Office (50 pages)

Report on the Gold of the National Bank of Bohemia and

Moravia

Report on the gold of the Sparkasse Luxembourg

1034 External Assets- Value of Gold and Silver Bullion and

Coin held by CG

Report on Gold of the Banca d’Italia taken to Germany

and subsequently entered on the books of the German

Reichsbank

1035-1036 External Assets

External Assets of Heinrich Himmler

1037-1043 External Assets

1043 Ribbentrop49 Investigation

Precious Metal, prepared 8-9 February 1945 by

Reichsbank Hauptkasse in Berlin for evacuation to mine

in Merkers (9 pages)

Report on Recovery of Reichsbank Precious Metals

External Assets of Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich

Security Office) (ca. 60 pages)

 

49 Joachim von Ribbentrop served as German Foreign Minister from February 4, 1938, until the end of the

war.
45

1044 External Assets

SS Loot and the Reichsbank. report 30 October 1945

External Assets of Walter Schellenberg

1045-1049 External Assets

1049 Report on the Investigation of Dr. Kurt Schmitt

1050-1051 External Assets

1124-1129 Reparations and Restitution

1129 Interrogation of and Reports about Hjalmar Schacht

1248-1304 I.G. Farben, including its American and Swiss

connections

1402-1404 Nazi Party Membership Records (A-Y)

1412 Displaced Persons in Austria

1432 Austria-Reparations and Restitution

1442 Austria-Displaced Persons

1451 Austria-Reparations and Restitution

1486-1499 Army Service Forces Handbooks (Countries A-Y)

1502-1503 Navy Civil Affairs Handbooks re War Refugee Board

with separate handbooks on Cooperation with Spain,

Turkey, Switzerland, Portugal, Sweden, Latin America;

and other handbooks on refugee activities in various

countries

1515 Latin America-Axis Espionage and Propaganda

1518 Displaced Persons-Poland

1613-1618 Department of State Bulletins

Records of the Office of the Judge Advocate General (RG 153)

War Crimes Branch

The War Crimes Branch, established in October 1944, had staff responsibility for the War

Department’s share in United States participation in the United Nations War Crimes Commission.

 Though the agency began as an Army activity, it became an Army and Navy enterprise in January

1945, under the control of the Judge Advocate General’s Office. It represented the United States

in the collection and preparation of evidence for the trials of suspected war criminals. 50

Governmental Publications (available in the consultation area in Room 2400)

The Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal,

Nuremberg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946. 46 vols. (Nuremberg, 1947-1949).51

Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression. 10 vols. (Washington, DC, 1946-1948)

52

Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals under Control Council

 

50 For related records, see the National Archives Collection of World War II War Crimes Records (RG

238).

51 These volumes contain the day-to-day proceedings and slightly more than half of the documents offered

in evidence by the prosecution and the defense. Volumes 2-22 are the complete trial transcripts; volumes 25-42 are

documents or excerpts from documents keyed to the transcripts. The documents are mostly in German, though each

document is introduced by a brief description in English. Volumes 23 and 24 are indexes--volume 23 to the

testimony and volume 24 to the documents.

52 These volumes, to some extent, duplicate the above volumes, but they also complement them since they

include material not put before the court. They contain the documentary evidence prepared by American and British

prosecutors, who were responsible for the case against those charged with preparing for and waging aggressive war.
46

Law No. 10, October 1946-April 1949 15 vols. (Washington DC, 1949-1953)53

Safehaven Reports 1944-45 (Entry 134)

Boxes 1-13 location: 270/1/5/04

Judge Advocate General Law Library, 1944-1949 (Entry 135)

Box # Document # and Title

3 L-36 Civil Affairs Information Guide “German Reichsbank Policy and

Control”

L-45 Foreign Economic Administration “Property Transferred Under the

Nazi Regime in Germany” 1944 location: 270/1/5/06

4 L-57 Board of Economic Warfare “Axis Penetration of European

Insurance.” 1943

L-60 Office of Economic Warfare “Italian International Banking

Connections.” 1943

L-61 Office of Economic Warfare “Foreign Investments Seized in Italy.”

1943 location: 270/1/5/06

5 L-99 Office of Economic Warfare “Key Laws Issued by the Axis in

Occupied Europe.” location: 270/1/5/06

13 L-222 Foreign Economic Administration “Location and Records of

Major Economic Control Agencies in Germany.” 1943-1945.

L-223 Foreign Economic Administration “Organization and Techniques

of German Ministries.” 1945

L-224 Foreign Economic Administration “Significant Data on Prewar

Germany Economy.” 1945 location: 270/1/5/07

21 L-244 State Department “The Proclaimed List of Certain Blocked

Nationals.” 1945 location: 270/1/6/01

48 L-309 Foreign Economic Administration “German Manual: Social

Structure, National Income.” location: 270/1/6/05

50 L-314 Treasury Department “Biographies of Leading German Bankers

and Industrialists.” location: 270/1/6/05

51 L-325 Office of Military Government for Germany-U.S. Zone (OMGUS)

“Report on the Gold of Banca d’Italia Taken to Germany.” 1945 location:

270/1/6/06

73 L-409 Preliminary Study of Certain Financial Decrees of the German

Occupying Authorities-The Netherlands” location: 270/1/7/02

77 L-426 Office of the Provost Marshal General “American Civil Internees

in Germany, 1942-1945.” location: 270/1/7/02

90 L-508 State Department. “The Proclaimed List of Certain Blocked

Nationals.” 1945

L-508 State Department “The Argentine Situation.” 1946 location:

270/1/7/04

96 L-536 “Economic Preparation and Conduct of the War Under the Nazis.”

1946 location: 270/1/7/05

 

53 These volumes contain selected portions of the record in translation, including the most important parts

of the testimony and a number of prosecution and defense exhibits.
47

Theaters of Operations Records

Records of Allied Operational and Occupation Headquarters, World War II (RG 331)

Records of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF)

The Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) was established on February 13, 1944,

as an integrated U.S.-British organization responsible to the Combined Chiefs of Staff. On July 14, 1945,

SHAEF was discontinued, and its civil-affairs and military government functions were assumed by the

Allied Group Control Council, in Berlin.

Records of SHAEF General Staff Organizations

Records of the Historical Section, Information Branch, G-5 Division

Numeric-Subject Operations File 1943-July 1945 (Entry 54)

Box 165 Historical Report, dated April 1945, under headings FINANCE and

MONUMENTS, FINE ARTS AND ARCHIVES pp. 21-43--deals with recovery of Gold and Art

work. Filed under G-5 17.6 Jacket #10. location: 290/7/24/05

Records of the Secretariat, G-5 Division

Numeric File August 1943-July 1945 (Entry 47)

Box # File Title or Subject

1 Financial Branch Folder labeled G-5 1/13 entitled FINANCIAL -

GERMANY- DISCOVERIES OF GOLD AND OTHER

VALUABLES contains numerous documents dated April, May, and

June, 1945. location: 290/7/20/07

20-21 Museum, Fine Arts and Archives Reports location: 290/7/21/03

Records of the Infomation Branch, Historical Section

Subject Index to Entry 54 (Entry 51)

Arranged alphabetically by subject.

Boxes 1-15 location: 290/7/22/07

Numeric-Subject Operations File 1943-July 1945 (Entry 54)

Box # File Title or Subject

198-199 US Group Control Council-Museum, Fine Arts and Archives

Branch location: 290/7/25/03

218-219 G-5 Reports and Summaries of Field Operations location:

290/7/25/06

219 “G-4 Functions in ETOUSA Operations: Merkers-HerringenFrankfurt Areas in Germany 9 April to 22 April 1945, dated 26

April 1945. This file contains several reports on the discovery and

disposition of gold and other valuables discovered in Germany by

the U.S. Army in April 1945. location: 290/7/25/06

272-273 Museum, Fine Arts and Archives location: 290/7/26/06

Records of the Operations Branch, Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section

Subject File August 1943-1945 (Entry 55B)
48

Boxes 322-326 location: 290/7/27/06

Records of the Adjutant General’s Division

War Diaries (Entry 58)

G-5 Division

Boxes 51-60 January-June 1945 contain references to looted gold, etc.

location: 290/7/33/06

Records of the Executive Section

Decimal File (Entry 56)

Decimal File 1945

Box 190 Decimal 386 Property Rights location: 290/7/31/07

Records of the General Headquarters Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (GHQ SCAP)

The General Headquarters Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (GHQ SCAP) was established by

General Order 1, GHQ SCAP, October 2, 1945, pursuant to a directive of President Truman, August 14,

1945, designating General Douglas MacArthur as SCAP, as agreed to by the Governments of the United

States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of China, and the U.S.S.R. This organization was responsible

for enforcing Japanese compliance with the Instrument of Surrender, signed September 2, 1945. It was

abolished by General Order 10, GHQ SCAP, April 28, 1952, following conclusion of the Treaty of Peace

with Japan, April 28, 1952.

Records of the Office of the Civil Property Custodian (SCAP)

Records of the German Assets Branch

Contraband File 1945-1952

Box # File Title

3760 German External Assets in Japan location: 290/15/19/06

3761 Sale of Unidentified Looted Gold and Silver-Project #104 

location: 290/15/19/06

German External Assets in Japan location: 290/15/19/06

Records of Allied Forces Headquarters

Allied Forces Headquarters (AFHQ) was established September 12, 1942, as an allied command to plan

and direct operations and military government activities in the North African Theater of Operations (later

expanded and renamed Mediterranean Theater of Operations). General Dwight D. Eisenhower, General

Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Field Marshal Sir Harold R.L.G. Alexander, General Joseph T. McNary

(Acting), Lieutenant General Sir William D. Morgan, and Lieutenant General John C. H. Lee (Acting)

were successively Allied Commander-in-Chief (or Supreme Allied Commander).

Under AFHQ operational control were a number of subordinate allied commands, including the Allied

Armies in Italy (also known as the Fifteenth Army Group); the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces; the Naval

Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean; Military Headquarters (Balkans), which directed relief and

rehabilitation measures in Albania, Greece, and Yugoslavia; and the Allied Military Government/Allied

Commission (Italy), which administered military government and civil affairs in occupied Italy. AFHQ

ceased functioning effective September 17, 1947.

The AFHQ records described below have been microfilmed and their location is 290/24/25/01 (Boxes 1-
49

355). Please contact the Archives II Textual Reference Branch staff for assistance in identifying specific

rolls of microfilm.

Records of the General Staff Section

Records of the G-5 (Military Government and Civil Affairs) Section

Records of the Policy and Control Division

Microfilm Copy of a Modified Decimal Correspondence File 1943-1946 (Entry 56)

Microfilm of a Restricted Decimal Correspondence File (900 Block Only) 1946-1947

(Entry 57)

Microfilm Copies of Records Concerning Occupation, Civil Administration, Courts and

Laws, De-Nazification, Military Government, and Other Matters in Connection With Planning and

Effectuating the Civil Administration of Austria ca. 1943-1947 (Entry 59)

Records of the Office of the Financial Adviser

Microfilm Copies of Records Relating to the Formulation of Financial Plans and Policies

for the Allied Military Government and the Allied Commission (Italy), Military Headquarters

(Balkans), the Allied Financial Agency, and the Allied Supply Accounting Agency 1943-1946

(Entry 82)

Records of the Allied Military Government and Allied Commission (Italy)

Records of the Headquarters Allied Military Government: Fifteenth Army Group

Records Concerning Axis Diplomats and Disposition of Property After the Fall of the

Social Republic of Salo July 1944-May 1945 (Entry 545)

Records of the Headquarters Allied Commission (Italy)

Records of Subcommissions

Records of Finance Subcommission

Records Concerning Financial Problems Encountered in the Invasion and Occupation of Italy

July 1943-July 1944 (Entry 634)

Numerical Correspondence File August 1943-April 1946 (Entry 635)

Records of the Property Control Subcommission

Records Relating to Property Control in Liberated Italy 1943-1945 (Entry 674)

Records of the Allied Military Government of Venezia Giulia

Records of the Finance Division

Records of the Executive Officer

Records Relating to the Control and Operation of Banks of Gorizia, Itali, Pola, and

Trieste June 1944-September 1947 (Entry 1001)

Records of the Commercial Insurance Section

Records Relating to the Supervision and Control of Commercial Insurance Companies and

to Activities of the Insurance Advisory Committee in Solving Problems of Companies in

 Liberated Areas 1944-1947 (Entry 1012)

Records of the Property Control Section
50

General Records

Records Relating to the Control and Administration of Property Belonging to Allied Nationals,

Fascist and Parastatal Bodies, Jews, the Italian Government, German and Greek Nationals, and

Others 1945-1947 (Entry 1015)

Records of the Allied Military Government, British-United States Zone Free Territory of Trieste

Under the terms of the Peace Treaty of 1947 with Italy, the territory under the administration of the Allied

Military Government for Venezia Giulia was divided between Italy and Yugoslavia except for a specified

area around Trieste. The territorial remnant was established on September 15, 1947, as the Free Territory

of Trieste and was occupied by joint British-American forces as the Allied Military Government, BritishUnited States Zone, Free Territory of Trieste. Major General Terence S. Airey was the first Zone

Commander and Military Governor, followed by Major General Sir T.J.W. Winterton. In October 1954

the Allied Military Government was abolished and the Territory turned over to the control of the Italian

Government.

The described below have been microfilmed and their location is 290/24/25/01 (Boxes 1-355). Please

contact the Archives II Textual Reference Branch staff for assistance in identifying specific rolls of

microfilm.

Records of the Directorate of Finance and Economics

Records of the Department of Finance

General Records

Memoranda, Reports, and Correspondence Concerning Policy, Procedures, and

Financial Matters in General 1947-1951 (Entry 91)

Records of the Banks Section

Statements, Reports, and Correspondence Pertaining to Foreign and Confiscated Currency,

Commercial Banks, and the Exchange and Investment of Foreign Capital 1946-1951(Entry 92)

Records of United States Army Commands, 1942- (RG 338)

Records of European Theater of Operations, U.S. Army

The top administrative headquarters over the United States Army’s combat and service

forces and troop units in the European Theater of Operations from June 8, 1942, to July 1, 1945,

was known as Headquarters United States Army European Theater of Operations, or ETOUSA. 

On July 1, 1945, ETOUSA was renamed United States Forces European Theater (USFET).

Records of the Secretary, General Staff

Classified General Correspondence

Box 13 2 Folders (labeled USFET SGS File 123/2) related to captured Gold Bullion.

Contains report made by the G-5 Division on contents of various mines in the Merkers area and a

preliminary inventory of gold bullion, currency, and miscellaneous property transferred to the

Reichsbank at Frankfurt from Merkers.location 290/55/10/4

Records of the Adjutant General’s Section

Records of the Administrative Branch

Classified General Correspondence 1945
51

Boxes 426-428 Decimal File 386 “Property Rights” location: 290/56/24/05

Records of the Prisoner of War Interrogation Section (MIS-Y)

Records of the 3rd Army Interrogation Center

Interrogation Reports 1945

Includes Report #38 “The Abwehr and the SD in Spain,” (9 September 1945) and Report

#48 “The Deutsche Bank and Its Industrial Interests,” (17 September 1945).

Box 69 location: 290/56/2/04

Records of the 7th Army Interrogation Center

Interrogation Reports, Consolidated Interrogation Reports 1945, and Special German 

Intelligence Interrogation Reports, 1945

Includes report entitled “Foreign Office Personnel and Records” (13 June 1945) and

“Reich Ministry of Economics” (13 June 1945)

Box 72 location: 290/56/2/04

Special Interrogation Reports 1945 and Miscellaneous Reports 1945

Includes three interrogations of Herman Goering (19, 21, 24 May 1945) and one with

Walter Funk (21 May 1945).

Box 73 location: 290/56/2/04

Final Interrogation Reports 1945

Includes report entitled “Walter Funk, Reich Minister of Economics [and] President of the

Reichsbank” (6 July 1945)

Box 74 location: 290/56/2/04

Miscellaneous Interrogation Reports 1944-1945

Includes report entitled “Abwehr Activities in Portugal” (29 August 1945) Box 75

location: 290/56/2/05

Records of the Military Intelligence Service Field Interrogation Service

Records of the Mobile Field Interrogation Unit #1

POW Intelligence Bulletins 1944-1945

Includes Bulletin No. 1/38 “German Banks” (16 February 1945) and Bulletin No. 1/58

“Abwehr Activities” (22 May 1945), which includes information on Switzerland and other

countries.

Box 84 location: 190/56/2/06

Records of the Department of State Special Investigative Mission

Interrogation Reports 1945-1946

Box 104 location: 290/56/3/02

Among the Reports:

Name of the

Interrogated

Subject of Interrogation
52

Wilhelm Keppler Foreign Economic Relations of Germany

Eugene Klee Nazi activities in Ecuador

Dietrich Niebuhr German intelligence activities in Argentina

Edmund Thermann German activities in Argentina

Heinrich Borchers Nazi activities in Chile

Franz von Papen54 German-Turkish relations

Paul Schmidt German policy in Southeastern Europe and

Turkey

Hans Thomsen German-Scandinavian relations

Hanna Feldtange Activities in Sweden of August Finke, SD

Chief there and Assistant Commercial Attache

of German Legation

Edmund

Veesenmayer55

German policy in Southwestern Europe 1939-

1944

Hermann Neubacher German policy in Southeastern Europe 1941-

1945

Ernst W. Bohle Activities of the Auslands56-organizations in

Latin America

Theodor Paeffgen Activity of the Reichssicherheit-shauptamt

(RSHA) 57 respecting Latin America

Baron Oswlad von German-Portuguese Relations from 1934 to

1941 Hoyningen-Huene

Paul Schmidt Germany and Spain

Records of the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-5

Records of the Administrative Branch

History 1946-1947

Boxes 1-2 location: 290/56/6/03

Records of the Historical Division

Records of Program Files

Records of Allied Organizations

Records of Supreme HQ, Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF)

Handbooks on German Organizations 1945

Boxes 1-2 location: 290/57/20/07

Records of American Organizations

Records of US Element, Allied Control Authority

Basic Preliminary Plan 1945

 

54 German ambassador to Turkey between September 1939 and August 1944.

55 Reich Plenipotentiary and Hitler’s Deputy in Hungary towards the end of the war.

56 Auslandsdeutsche: Germans living abroad.

57 RSHA (Reichssicherheitshauptampt) was The Reich Main Security Office formed in 1939. Its

departments included the Intelligence Division, the Gestapo (Secret State Police), the Criminal Police and the SD

(Security Service).
53

Boxes 1-4 location: 290/57/20/07

Miscellaneous Records 1945

Box 1 location: 290/57/21/01

Charts, Directives, Summaries, Memos 1944-1945

Box 1 location: 290/57/21/01

Records of the Office of Military Government for Germany U.S. (OMGUS)

Basic Plan for Control of Germany;Chronology of OMGUS 1945

Box 1 location: 290/57/21/01

Reports, Summaries, Charts 1945-1946

Box 1 location: 290/57/21/01

Reports, Memos, Summaries and Reviews 1945-1946

Box 1 location: 290/57/21/02

Summaries, Memos 1946-1947

Box 1 location: 290/57/21/02

Daily Intelligence Digest 1945-1946

Box 1 location: 290/57/21/02

Records of US Forces, European Theater (USFET)

Records of the G-5 Section

Operations Reports 1946

Box 1 location: 290/57/22/05

History, Plans 1945-1946

Box 1 location: 290/57/22/05

Letters (Economics Branch) 1945-1946

Box 1 location: 290/57/22/06

Records of U.S. Occupation Headquarters, World War II (RG 260)

Records of the Office of the Military Governor, United States (OMGUS)

The Office of Military Government for Germany (U.S.)[OMGUS] was established, effective October 1,

1945, and was responsible for administering the U.S. zone of occupation and U.S. sector of Berlin, and for

functioning as U.S. element of organizations comprising the Allied Control Authority, the name given to

the four-power occupation control system. Many OMGUS functions had previously come under the U.S.

Group Control Council, Germany (USGCC), which functioned from May 8 to October 1, 1945. OMGUS

was formally abolished on December 5, 1949, and its functions transferred to the U.S. High Commissioner

for Germany (USHCG)58 .

 

58 For the records of the U.S. High Commissioner for German see the Records of the U.S. High

Commissioner for Germany (RG 466).
54

General Lucius D. Clay commanded OMGUS.

OMGUS was quite active in restitution and reparation matters as the result of various Allied agreements. 

At the Crimea Conference (February 4-12, 1945), the leaders of the United States, the United Kingdom,

and the Soviet Union agreed, among other things, to exact reparations from Germany. In the Crimea

Conference Communique the Prime Minister of Great Britain, the President of the United States, and the

Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics stated that

they “recognized it as just that Germany be obliged to make compensation for the damage in kind to the

greatest extent possible.” In the Protocol of Proceedings of the Crimea Conference it was set forth that

“Germany must pay in kind for the losses caused by her to the Allied nations in the course of the war. 

Reparations are to be received in the first instance by those countries which have borne the main burden of

the war, have suffered the heaviest losses and have organized victory over the enemy.” The Protocol then

lays out what will be considered reparations and the procedures for its distribution. 59

The primary directive for OMGUS with respect to control and resitution of property was the “Directive to

Commander-in-Chief of United States Forces of Occupation Regarding the Military Government of

Germany (JCS 1067).” This directive, which was sent to General Eisenhower in April 1945, stated that as

one of the Allied objectives was “to enforce the program of reparations and restitution.” The directive

instructed the Commander-in-Chief to impound or block all gold, silver, currencies, securities, accounts in

financial institutions, credits, and valuable papers of eight categories of persons and organizations. He was

also insructed to take control of “property which has been the subject of transfer under duress or wrongful

acts of confiscation, disposition or spoliation, whether pursuant to legislation or by procedure purporting to

follow forms of laws or otherwise.” Additionally he was instructed to take control of “works of art of

cultural materials of value or importance, regardless of the ownership thereof.”60

A new directive, approved by the Departments of State, War, and Navy, on July 15, 1947, was sent to

General Clay, the United States commander in Germany. He was infomed that among the economic

objectives of the United States Government in Germany was “to exact from Germany reparation for lesses

suffered by the United nations as a consequence of german aggression.” He was informed that “your

Government continues to desire the general fulfill ment of the principles of the Potsdam Agreement61

regarding reparation and industrial disarmament.” With respect to restitution matters he was instructed to

“proceed, consistent with agreements on restitution reached in the Control Council, restore such

identifiable property other than gold and transport essential to minimum German economy, to the

Government of the country from which it was taken.” He was instructed to “turn over monetary gold

uncovered in German to the Tripartite Gold Commission in Brussels for distribution in accordance with the

terms of the Paris Act on Reparation.” Further, he was instructed to “make available for the rehabilitation

and resettlement of non-repatriable victims of Geman action valuable personal property looted from Nazi

 

59 Department of State, Press Release, March 24, 1947.

60 Department of State Bulletin, October 31, 1945. The Joints Chiefs initially sent their directive to General

Eisenhower in December 1944. Eisenhower was unable to obtain its approval by the other Allied commanders. The

Joints Chiefs then tried to obtain approval for it from the European Advisory Council, but were unable to, in part

because the opposition of the Department of State and the Foreign Economic Administration. The directive was

finally issued to Eisenhower in April 1945 as applying to the United States forces of occupation. It remained a secret

document until October 17, 1945, over six months after the German surrender and two months after much of it had

been incorporated in the Potsdam Agreement.

61 Reference is to the joint report of the Anglo-Soviet-American Conference held at Berlin-Potsdam, was

released on August 2, 1945. Department of State Bulletin, August 5, 1945, pp. 153-161. On September 20, 1945, the

Governments of Great Britain, the United States, the U.S.S.R., and the Provisional Government of the French

Republic reached agreement about specific instructions to be issued by the Allied Representatives in Germany. The

agreement is entitled “Additional Arrangements For Control of Germany.” Department of State Bulletin, October 7,

1945, pp. 515-521.
55

victims which is not restitutable.” Finally, he was informed that “it is the policy of your Government that

persons and organizations deprived of their property as a result of National Socialist persecution should

either have their property returned or be compensated therefore and that persons who suffered personal

damage or injury through National Socialist persecution should receive indemnification in German

currency. With respect to heirless and unclaimed property subject to internal restitution you will designate

appropriate successor organizations.”62

Records of the Executive Office

Records of the Chief of Staff

General Records

Boxes 1-3 location: 390/40/18/06

Records Regarding Investigations, Political, Emergency and other Activities, and Occupation

 Policies and Requirements

Boxes 4-9 location: 390/40/18/06

Correspondence and Other Records of BG Charles K. Gailey 1944-1948

Boxes 10-16 location: 390/40/18/07

Records Maintained for the Military Governor, LTG Lucius D. Clay 1945-194963

Boxes 17-24 location: 390/40/19/02

Correspondence and Other Records Maintained by MG Frank Keating, Assistant Deputy

Military Governor 1946-1947

Boxes 25-27 location: 390/40/19/02

Records of the Office of the Adjutant General

Records Created by the Office of the Adjutant General

General Correspondence and Other Records (“Decimal File”) 1945-1949

Boxes 1-115 1945-1946 location: 390/40/19/03

Box 8 under decimal AG 004.2 are three folders dealing with banks and banking. Among

them is “Report: SS64 Loot and the Reichsbank” by Col. Bernard Bernstein,65 October 30, 1945 

location: 390/40/19/04

Boxes 116-323 1947 location: 390/40/21/06

Boxes 324-515 1948 location: 390/40/26/01

Boxes 516-612 1949 location: 390/40/29/07

 

62 Department of State Bulletin, July 27, 1947, pp. 186-193.

63 For additional Clay records, see General Lucius D. Clay Personal Papers April 1945-May 1949 (Boxes

1-15 location: 130/75/45/06) in The National Archives Gift Collection (RG 200).

64 The SS (Schutztaffel), protection squads formed in 1925, became the personal bodyguard of Adolf Hitler

and grew into the mot powerful organization within the Nazi party and the Nazi State under the leadership of

Heinrich Himmler.

65 Bernstein served most of the war in the Treasury Department and then was commissioned into the U.S.

Army. He first served as deputy chief of the Finance Section of SHAEF G-5. He later served with OMGUS as the

Director of the Division of Decartilization and External Assets.
56

Formerly Security-Classified General Correspondence and Other Records (“Classified 

Decimal File”) 1945-1949

Boxes 613-632 location: 390/40/31/07

Reference Copies of Records Provided by other Organizations or Individuals Retained

in the Office of the Adjutant General

Formerly Security-Classified Intelligence Reports and other Records 1945-1949

Boxes 781-798 location: 390/40/25/03

Combined Chiefs of Staff Study Reports and Related Records 1943-1948

Boxes 800-807 location: 390/40/35/06

Box # File Series # File Title

804 CCS 659 “Policy with respect to enemy diplomatic and

consular property captured within the territories of

third powers”

CCS 703 “Proposed agreements with the governments of

Northwest Europe as to disposal of war material and

other property”

805 CCS 845 “Disposition of bullion and other property

discovered by Third Army”

State-War-Navy Department Coordinating Committee Study Reports and Other Records

1945-1947

Boxes 808-809 location: 390/40/35/07

Box # SWNCC Report # Subject

808 118 U.S. draft directive on control of works of art and

monuments

122/4 Treatment of German archives, records, and

documents

204/5 Restitution from Germany and Austria to Italy,

Hungary, Rumania, and Finland; and from Germany

to Austria, Bulgaria, and Albania

251 Restitution to Lithuania, Lativia and Estonia of

property seized by Gemany

253 German propery in Japan

322 Return of looted objects of art to countries of origin

328 Unilateral removals from Germany to be

accountable for as reparation

342 Disposition of foreign currencies found in Germany

Records of the Control Office

Records Relating to the Establishment of Military Government in Germany

Records Relating to the Activities of the Finance Division 1945-1949

Boxes 451-452 location: 390/41/10/01 

Box 453 location: 390/B/5/01

Records Relating to the Property Division 1945-1949
57

Contains Property Division memoranda, studies, reports, correspondence, and other

records relating to restitution and reparations. 

Boxes 469-476 location: 390/41/10/03

Records of Functional Offices and Divisions

Records Created by the Economics Advisor and Retained by the Office of

Economic Affairs of HICOG

Records of the External Claims Branch of the Finance Division

Records Relating to Claims for Property Not Returned (“Dead Claims File”) 1948-1950

Boxes 317-321 location: 390/42/14/02

Records Relating to Claims for Personal Property (“Claims File”) 1946-1951

Boxes 322-324 location: 390/42/14/03

Records Relating to Claims for Securities (“Claims File”)1948-1950

Boxes 325-362 location: 390/41/14/03

Records of the Property Division

Records of the Office of the Director, Including the Staff Sections

Records of the Secretariat Section

General Records 1944-50

Boxes 1-18 location: 390/44/20/01

Records of the Reports Section

Reports Submitted to and by the Reports Officer 1945-49

Boxes 19-21 location: 390/44/20/03

Box 20 contains file on commercial gold and silver.

Records of the Property Control and External Assets Branch

The Property Control and External Assets Branch was established by Property Division

Memorandum No. 4 of March 22, 1948. The Branch assumed and performed the functions of its

predecessors, or the Property Control and the External Assets branches of various divisions of

OMGUS and OMGUS’s predecessor, the U.S. Group Control Council. The Branch developed

and executed policies and procedures for taking control, holding, and administering all types of

tangible property in the U.S. zone of occupied Germany and in the U.S. Sector of Berlin--property

that OMGUS had ordered taken into custody. The Branch also assisted in the work of formulating

policies and establishing procedures for the disposition of the properties under control and

provided general supervision over the administration of the internal restitution program for the

return of identifiable property confiscated from victims of Nazi persecution. Regarding external

assets, the Branch conducted all investigations within the U.S. zone and the U.S. Sector, Berlin, to

develop evidence of German ownership of property outside of Germany. Through its U.S. Census

Section, the Branch conducted a census of German external assets and obligations in the U.S. zone

and the U.S. Sector, Berlin, and prepared and distributed to government agencies throughout the

world the results of the census. Further, the Branch made recommendations to the Department of

State and its foreign missions and the Inter-Allied Reparations Agency concerning policies and

procedures affecting German external assets.
58

On July 1, 1949, OMGUS property control offices were completly liquidated. Certain

residual property control duties were transferred to a Central German Property Control

Coordinating Committee composed of four Land civilian agency offices. Other property control

functions, which could not be transferred to the Committee, were made the responsibility of the

Military Governor’s Economic Adviser.

Records of the Branch Chief 1944-1950

Boxes 1-33 location: 390/44/20/04

Property Control Case Files 1946-1948

Boxes 34-78 location: 390/44/21/02

Correspondence and Related Records Pertaining to Property Claims 1946-1948

Boxes 79-86 location: 390/44/22/01

Geographic Index to Control Claims 1945-1949

Boxes 1-23 location: 390/44/34/06

Name Index to Control Claims 1945-1949

Boxes 24-54 location: 390/44/35/04

Name Index to Numbered Property Control Claims 1945-1949

Boxes 1-21 location: 390/44/35/04

Geographic Index to Numbered Property Control Claims 1945-1949

Boxes 22-42 location: 390/44/35/05

Numbered Property Control Claims 1945-1948

Boxes 87-520 location: 390/44/22/01

Records of the External Assets Investigation Section

The Section had begun as the “Spot” Investigative Section, Intelligence Branch, Division

of Cartels and External Assets, so named to distinguish its type of investigations from those of the

several branches whose efforts were directed against pre-determined target concerns. From June

1, 1946 to September 30, 1948, the Section completed 627 investigations, and had, on the latter

date, approximately 100 requests. Somewhat more than one-half of the requests were received

from the United States foreign missions, though the Office of Political Affairs, with Switzerland,

Spain, and Italy accounting for the largest number of cases. The remaining requests were received

from the Inter-Allied Reparation Agency (IARA) at Brussels, the British, the French, and various

sources in the United States. By October 1948, the Section was the only unit still existing within

Germany for the purpose of carrying out the functional responsibilities imposed by the Safehaven

Program.

General Records Pertaining to External Assets Investigations 1945-49

Boxes 521-613 location: 390/44/31/01

Box # File Title or Subject

591 Safehaven Reports location: 390/44/32/04

597-599 Spain location: 390/44/32/05

603 Spanish Safehaven Accord
59

Sweden Accord location: 390/44/32/06

Reports and Exhibits Relating to Investigations 1945-47

Boxes 614-628 location: 390/44/32/07

Box # File Title or Subject

620-622 I.G. Farben location: 390/44/33/01

625-626 Safehaven Reports location: 390/44/33/02

Interrogations and Reports Pertaining to German Financial Matters 1945-46

Box # File Titles

629 Interrogation of All Close Friends of Nazi Big Wigs

Interrogation of Dr. Walter Funk & Other Top Nazis

Interrogation of Herman Goring & Mrs. Goring and Friends of

Family

630 Safe Haven Reports and Interrogation of Top Nazis from A-G

Safe Haven Reports and Interrogations of Top Nazis from G-R

631 Safe Haven Reports and Interrogations of Top Nazis from S-W

Target List

Spain (Interrogations)

Status of the Deutsche Ueberseeische Bank location: 390/44/33/03

Informational Reports Prepared by the Ministerial Records Section66 1945-46

This series contains records relating to the suspected cloaking of German assets, including

securities and patents, in Great Britain, the United, States, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden,

Switzerland, Spain, and, several other countries, including various South American countries such

as Argentina and Bolivia. Also includes files on bonds transmitted to Spain and Portugal and

placed at the disposal of the German S.S.

Boxes 632-643 location: 390/44/33/03

General Intelligence and Investigation Records Pertaining to German External Assets

1945-50

Boxes 644-655 location: 390/44/33/05

Box # File Title

644 ACC Law No. 567

Albania

Alien Property Custodian

645 Alien Property Custodian (Target Lists)

Anti-Nazi Property

Argentina (2 files)

Austria (3 files)

 

66 The Ministerial Records Section was organized in August 1945. The Section was made responsible for

locating and exploiting records of the German government relating to concealed German external assets. The

Section, which was deactivated in July 1946, prepared approximately 200 reports on cloaked German assets, in

addition to turning over to the investigative branches a large amount of data relating to concealed German holdings

of target industrial concerns.

67 Adopted by the Allied Control Council in October 1945. It directed that all foreign German assets were

to be administered by the council’s German External Property Commission.
60

Belgium (2 files)

Black Lists, Watch Lists, etc.

British Correspondence-Transmittal Letters

646 British Reports

British Zone

Bulgaria

Canada

Costa Rica

Censorship

Cables

Currency

Czechoslovakia

Denmark (2 files)

Danish Securities

647 Denmark (2 files)

Detention Report

Egypt

Expellees

Finance Director, Letters to

External Assets - Prisoners

External Assets - Misc.

External Assets Investigations Section

648 History

Finland

France

Compensation

Funds for Repatriated Germans

French - Transmittal Letters

French Reports

German Foreign Exchange Laws and Other Laws

German Legislation

German Mining Companies

Gold - Gold Cup

Gold

Gold - Current Matters

648 External Assets & Intelligence Branch Functions

649 Gold and other Metals

Value of German External Assets

GEPC [German External Property Commission]68 Policy 30 April

1945, February 1946; GEPC Policy 3 May [1946]; GEPC Policy

31 January -29 April 1946

GEPC Policy; GEPC-Miscellaneous

GEPC - IARA - Trusteeship Relations

 

68 The Allied Control Council (ACC) on October 30, 1945 established the German External Property

Commission. It was empowered by the ACC to “assume control of all German assets abroad with the intention

thereby of promoting international peace and collective security by the elimination of German war potentials...” The

duty of the Commission was to take ownership of all rights and titles in German property outside of Germany,

controlled by anyone of German nationality outside of Germany, or by any business or corporation organized under

the laws of Germany, or “having its principal place of business in Germany.”
61

650 Gold I; Gold II

Greece

Policy: German External Assets

Military Government Laws and Regulations

651 Hungary

Ireland

Italian Agreement Insurance

Japan - Korea

JEIA - Consignee Screening List

Joint Committee for Finance

Joint Special Financial Detachments

Jugoslavia

Legal Opinions

London Embassy

MGAX69; MGAX [forms] (5 files)

652 Netherlands

Military Government Law No. 5370

Mail Communications between Germany and Outside Countries

Netherlands

Norway

Peru

Polish Administered Germany

Portuguese Accord

Portugal Consulate

Portugal - Tabulations

Proclaimed List

653 Switzerland

RWM German External Assets

Property Control

German Reparation; German Reparation for Other Countries

Swedish Negotiations

Swiss Negotiations Before the Accord 1945-April 1946

654 Switzerland German Assets

Switzerland - List of Blocked Firms

Switzerland - General

Swiss Accord Correspondence

Turkey

USA

655 U.S. Census Section

U.S. Census 1946; U.S. Census 1947

Liquidation of German Assets

Records of the U.S. Census Section

 

69 For the MGAX form, see the records of the U.S. Census Section below.

70 As the allied forces advanced into Germany early in 1945, this law was placed in effect in the occupied

areas. It required the declaration of foreign exchange assets and obligations. It applied to the three western zones of

occupation of Germany. A law of similar content and effect was enacted for the Soviet Zone. Due to the desirability

of having a single law for Berlin which would apply to all sectors, the enactment of a law (Berlin Kommandatura

Order BKO 46/337) which required declarations of assets and obligations, was delayed until 1946.
62

As soon as Military Government Law No. 53 became effective, all persons in Germany,

both natural and juridical, owning or controlling any property subject to Military Government Law

No. 53 were required to execute and file with the nearest Reichsbank office Form MGAX-

(1), declaring therein their assets in, and claims against foreign countries. The executed MGAX-

(1) declarations were to be channeled by the various Reichsbank branches into the Reichsbank

Frankfurt/Main which became the central German collection point in connection with the MGAX-

(1) program in the U.S. Zone. As early as September 1945, the formation of a U.S. Census

Section was outlined by John A. Banning, Chief of the External Assets Census Branch of the

Division of Investigation of Cartels and External Assets. He proposed that the Section issue

instructions requiring that all MGAX-(1) reports be delivered to the Section at its Frankfurt

offices; that a program of procedures covering the coding, punching and tabulating by machine

records of all such report forms was to be inaugurated (the purpose of which was to accomplish a

breakdown as to the type of external assets, currency, location, and ownership); and maintain

liaison with the British and French elements of the Office of Military Government for Germany

with a view to urge adoption of a similar census program in the other zones. By October 31, 1945,

the Section was functioning with Stanley M. Friedman as Chief. The program for tabulating

Germany’s external assets was submitted to Colonel Bernard Bernstein, the Director of DICEA. 

The program was promptly approved; the instructions to the Reichsbank were issued; and the

forms distributed to the Reichsbanks.

In Early 1946 the Section moved to Berlin, as part of the External Assets Branch, Finance

Division, OMGUS. In June 1946 Deputy Section Chief Frank J. Miller became the Chief. On

August 1, 1947 Miller became the Deputy Chief of the External Assets Branch, and was

succeeded by Jules Wangler.

During nearly three years of operation, the Section accumulated 774,000 MGAX-(1) and

30,800 BKAC-(1) (for the Berlin Sector) reports, in duplicate, as well as an index system

containing 1.3 million cards. Subsequently one set of declarations, exclusive of expellee

declarations, were sent to the Director of Alien Property Control (Department of Justice) and a full

set of declarations (inclusive of expellee declarations) together with the card index was placed in

the Bank Deutscher Laender, Frankfurt/Main. The Section was deactivated on 30 September

1948.

General Records of the Section Chief 1945-1948

Boxes 665-679 location: 390/44/34/01

Hand Tabulations of German External Assets as Disclosed by Declarations Filed in the Soviet 

Zone of Germany 1947

Boxes 680-687 location: 390/B/5/04

Financial Records Relating to I.G. Farbenindustrie Aktingesellschaft 1946

Boxes 688-698 location: 390/44/34/03

Records of the Claims Section

General Records 1947-1949

Boxes 699-700 location: 390/44/34/04

Copies of Letters Sent 1946-1949

Boxes 701-706 location: 390/44/34/05
63

Records of Meetings 1948-1949

Box 707 location: 390/44/34/06

Statistical Reports 1947-1949

Box 708 location: 390/44/34/06

Inspection Reports 1948-1949

Box 709 location: 390/44/34/06

Records of the Reparations and Restitution Branch

Records of the Branch Headquarters

General Records

Cables Relating to Reparations and Restitutions 1945-1948

Boxes 1-5 location: 390/44/35/07

Records Pertaining to Hungarian Restitution Claims 1946-1951

Boxes 6-9 location: 390/45/1/01

Miscellaneous Publications Relating to Restitution and Reparations 1947-1948

Box 11 location: 390/45/1/01

Records Relating to Reparations 1945-1949

Boxes 12-16 location: 390/45/1/02

Register of Securities Claimed under Military Government Law 59 1948-1949

Boxes 17-19 location: 390/45/1/02

Records Related to the Restitution of Precious Metal 1947-1950

Boxes 20-28 location: 390/45/1/03

Box # File Title

20 Danish Gold

Meritorious Claims (General)

Evaluation Reports

Meritorious Claims (Mr. de Keyserlin)

Internal Restitution

External Restitution

Reparations Plants

21 Silver Securities 1947

Silver & Gold Inventory

Precious Metals

Degussa71 Gold & Silver

Commercial Gold & Silver

Precious Metals

22 Procedures - Disposition of Records

Restitutions General 1948

 

71 Deutsche Gold-und-Silber Scheideanstalt.
64

Steg Lists

Property Control

Copies of Miscellaneous Releases

Completed

Krauss-Maffei Restitution Case

Restitution-Outgoing

Freund/Feigl Restitution Case

Reichsbank U.S. Zone [25256]

Special Investigation [Austrian Mission] 25 May -4 June

1948

Restitution Claim No. 11384-B-Belgium

23 Claim No. 18684-R-Russia (U.S.S.R.)

Latukan Properties

Czech Claims

Restitution

24 Restitution Policy; Restitution

French Claim 13802-F Bavaria Film-Kunst

(Bendict) Czech Securities

U.S.S.R. Confidential

Russia-Meritorious Claims

Claim No. 18746-R

Miscellaneous Restitution

25 Restitution in Greater Berlin

Restitution Policy

Miscellaneous

26 List of Reparations

Strategic Commodities (Reparations)

U.S. Ownership (Reparations)

Reparations

Precious Metal

Reparations

27 Reparations

Misc[ellaneous].

Reciprocal Deliveries

Restitution Policy & Action

28 Copies of Semi Monthly reports to P.D. & Rep. Rest.

Restitution Shipping Reports for Bremen 1948; Bavaria

1948;

Hesse 1948; and Wuerttemberg-Baden 1948

Reparation Shipping Schedule 1948

Reparation Tonnage Allocation Reports 1948

Restitution - Statistics 1948

Schedule Completion - Deliveries

Reparation Plants Allocated Status Reports 1948

Rest[itution]. Claims

Records Concerning Claims

Records Related to Completed Russian Restitution Claims 1945-1949

Boxes 29-32 location: 390/45/1/4
65

Records Related to Rejected Russian Restitution Claims 1945-1949

Boxes 33-40 location: 390/45/1/05

Records Relating to the Italian Mission for Restitution Claims 1946-1949

Box 41 location: 390/45/1/06

Records Filed by the Italian Mission for Restitution 1946-1948

Boxes 42-50 location: 390/45/1/06

Records Relating to the Hungarian Mission for Restitution Claims 1946-1949

Boxes 51-52 location: 390/45/1/07

Records Filed by the Hungarian Mission for Restitution Claims 1946-1949

 Boxes 53-92 location: 390/45/2/01

Restitution Claims Initiated by Foreign Missions for Restitution 1946-1948

Boxes 93-597 location: 390/45/2/06

Claims Processing Records 1949-1951

Boxes 598-599 location: 390/45/13/0

Register of Claims and Releases of Property 1947-1948

Box 600 location: 390/45/13/02

Records of Sections and Offices

Records of the Restitution Liaison Office

Cables and Messages May 1947-August 1949

Box 669 location: 390/45/14/04

Records Relating to Meritorious Restitution Claims 1949-1950

Box 670 location: 390/45/14/05

List of Meritorious Restitution Claims 1949

Box 671 location: 390/45/14/05

Consolidate Restitution Report of Wuerttemberg-Baden 1949

Box 672 location: 390/45/15/05

Records of the Chief of the Reparations and Restitution Liaison Office 1946-1949

Box 673 location: 390/45/15/05

Meritorious Restitution Claims 1948-1949

Boxes 674-701 location: 390/45/15/05

Records of the Restitution Section

Correspondence and Related Records 1946-1949

Boxes 702-706 location 390/45/15/02

Semimonthly Reports 1946-1948
66

Box 707 location: 390/45/15/03

Monthly Restitution Reports June 1946-October 1948

Box 708 location: 390/45/15/03

Restitution Shipment Reports 1948

Box 709 location: 390/45/15/03

Records Relating to the exploitation of Rohstoff-Handel-Gesellschaft, M.B.H.

(“ROGES”) 1945-1948

Boxes 710-711 location: 390/45/15/03

Records Pertaining to Restitution 1945-1950

Boxes 712-719 location: 390/45/15/05

Records of the Museum, Fine Arts, and Archives Section (MFAA)

The Museum, Fine Arts, and Archives Section (MFAA) had its origins in SHAEF. 

During the occupation of Germany the MFAA Section was first a section of the Restitution Branch

of the Economics Division. It would be reorganized many times, including being transferred in

March 1948 to the Property Division, along with the Restitution Branch. When the cultural

restitution program ended in December 1948, the remaining MFAA functions were transferred to

the Cultural Affairs Branch of the Education and Cultural Relations Division, where they

remained until the end of OMGUS in September 1949.

General Records of the Section Chief 1944-1949

Boxes 720-722 location: 390/45/15/05

Records Pertaining to Restitution 1945-1948

Boxes 723-724 location: 390.45/15/05

Miscellaneous Records 1945-1949

Boxes 725-726 location: 390/45/15/06

Correspondence Pertaining to Restitution of Cultural Properties 1945-1947

Box 729 location: 390/45/15/06

Records Pertaining to Interzonal Restitution Transfers 1946-1947

Box 730 location: 390/45/15/06

Cultural Property Claim Applications 1946-1948

Boxes 733-767 location: 390/45/15/07

Claims of Cultural Property Removed by German Forces 1946-1948

Boxes 768-774 location: 390/45/16/05

Records Pertaining to the Use of Declarations of Property Removed from Areas Occupied by

German Forces 1947-1948

Box 775 location: 390/45/16/06

Lists of Property Removed From France During the War 1939-1945
67

Boxes 781-783 location: 390/45/16/06

Records Concerning the Central Collecting Points (“Ardelia Hall Collection”)

Records of OMGUS Headquarters Relating to the Central Collecting Points

General Records 1938-1948

Boxes 1-34 location: 390/45/17/02

Activity Reports 1945

Boxes 35-37 location: 390/45/17/07

Restitution Custody and Receipts 1945-1951

Boxes 38-50 location: 390/45/17/07

Records of the Wiesbaden Central Collecting Point

See Finding Aid in the consultation area in Room 2400 for specific series.

Boxes 51-232 location: 390/45/18/02

Records of the Marburg Central Collecting Point

See Finding Aid in the consultation area in Room 2400 for specific series.

Boxes 233-249 location: 390/45/22/02

Records of the Offenbach Archival Depot

See Finding Aid in the consultation area in Room 2400 for specific series.

Boxes 250-262 location: 390/45/22/05

Records of the Munich Central Collecting Point

See Finding Aid in the consultation area in Room 2400 for specific series.

Boxes 263-550 location: 390/45/29/03

Miscellaneous Property Reports

Miscellaneous Property Cards 1945-1947

Box 551 location: 390/45/29/04

Property Cards Relating to Evacuated Repositories 1945-1948

Boxes 552-554 location: 390/45/29/04

Records Relating to Repositories of Looted Cultural Objects 1945

Boxes 555-556 location: 390/45/29/05

Records Relating to German Institutions Located Outside the American Zone with 

Material In Repositories in the American Zone 1945-1948

Box 557 location: 390/45/29/05

Records of the Restitution Control Branch, Karlsruhe

“Reading File.” July 1947-October 1948

Boxes 1-2 location: 390/45/30/01
68

Administrative Records Relating to Foreign Missions for Restitution 1947-1948

Box 3 location: 390/45/30/01

Miscellaneous Records Pertaining to Restitution 1947-1948

Box 4 location: 390/45/30/01

Miscellaneous Restitution Claims Filed by Foreign Missions for Restitution of Various Countries

1946-1948

Boxes 5-16 location: 390/45/30/01

Correspondence and Related Records of the Restitution Control Branch 1946-1948

Box 18 location: 390/45/30/03

Records of Missions for Restitution Claims 1946-1948

Box 19 location: 390/30/45/03

Weekly and Semimonthly Reports of the Progress of Restitution Claims January 1947-

December 1948

Box 20 location: 390/45/30/04

Records relating to Violations in the Filing of Declarations of Property Removed From

Areas Occupied by German Forces 1947-1948

Box 26 location: 390/45/30/04

Index to Declarations of Property Removed From Areas Occupied by German Forces

1946

Boxes 1-27 location: 390/45/34/04

Declarations of Property Removed from Areas Occupied by German Forces 1946-1948

Boxes 27-210 location: 390/45/30/05

Index to the Hungarian, Austrian, and Luxembourgian Missions for Restitution Claims

1946-1948

Box 211 location: 390/45/234/03

Index to Norwegian, Polish, and Yugoslavian Missions for Restitution Claims 1946-1948

Box 212 location: 390/45/34/03

Listing of Restitution Claims Released to the Missions for Restitution of Various 

Countries 1947-1948

Boxes 213-214 location: 390/45/34/03

Records of the Office of the Finance Adviser and the Financial Division

Records of the Finance Division

Records Regarding Financial Policy and Advising

Correspondence and Related Records

General Records (“Floater File”) 1947-1948

Boxes 1-8 location: 390/45/35/05
69

Records Maintained by Colonel David L. Robinson, Jr. 1945-1946

Box 9 location: 390/45/35/06

Correspondence and Other Records Maintained by Joseph M. Dodge 1945-1946

Box 10 location: 390/45/35/06

Miscellaneous and Other Records 1945-1946

Boxes 11-13 location: 390/45/35/06

Miscellaneous Records

Records Pertaining to Policy and Procedures (“Policy File”) `1946-1948

Boxes 21-40 location: 390/46/1/01

Miscellaneous Records Relating to Blocking, Cloaking, and Identification of Assets

1944-1945

Contains files pertaing to Nazis traveling and closing out accounts; German control of

banking in Europe; German financial activities in France; Safehaven reports on suspect

companies; and Swiss law on blocking assets. Also included are numerous reports on Switzerland

and ledgers written in German.

Boxes 41-43 location: 390/46/1/04

Records Regarding Investigations

Records Regarding Bank Investigations 1945-1947

Includes numerous reports on banks, Nazi gold, the use of Swiss banks, links between

German and Swiss banks, and the special account used to handle Swiss trade by the Reichsbank.

Boxes 44-55 location: 390/46/1/04

Records Relating to Interrogations of Nazi Financiers 1946-1947

Box # File Title

56 Alzheimer Interrogations 17 July 1947

Draft of Schmitt Report

Exhibits to Finck Report 1-53

Dr. W. Eggress Interrogation 17 August 1947

57 Interrogations of August von Finck 22, 23, 25, September 1947

Interrogation re von Finck

Hilgard Interrogations 14, 16, 22 July 1947

Illies and Co. Hamburg/Berlin; Illies Hamburg/Berlin

58 Schmitt Interrogations 8, 21 July 1947

Reichswirtschaftsimister

Schmitt Report

Stock Exchange Statistics; Stock Exchange Supervisory Board

Schmitt Interrogations 9, 15 July 1947; Schmitt Interrogations

Exhibits. 2-43; Schmitt Statement 24 August 1947

Schwede-Coburg Interrogation 25 June 1947

Statement by Mr. Aloys Ade

Zach Interrogation 27 May 1947 location: 390/46/1/06

Records of the Financial Institutions Branch
70

Records Relating to Insurance and Central Bank Policies 1945-1948

Boxes 59-63 location: 390/46/1/06

Records of the Office of the Finance Adviser

General Records Regarding Financial Policies and Military Government Legislation

General Records Regarding Financial Policy and Legislation 1945-1949

Boxes 64-77 location: 390/46/1/07

Correspondence and Other Records Regarding Financial Policy and Operations 1946-1949

Boxes 90-103 location: 390/46/2/04

Records Relating to Specific Functional Policy Programs

Records Pertaining to the Allied Bank Commission 1948-1949

Boxes 125-126 location: 390/46/3/02

Records Relating to External Assets 1946-48

Box 130 location: 390/46/3/02

File Titles

Claims-Restitution

External Assets (3 files)

Compensation

GEPC Agenda and Minutes

GEPC Material

Procedures for the Release of Non-German Securities located in Germany or held outside

of Germany in the name of German Banks, which securities are owned by persons

permanently residing outside of Germany

Switzerland

Records Relating to Financial Institution Policy 1945-1949

Boxes 131-158 location: 390/46/3/02

Records Relating to Foreign Exchange and Blocking Policies 1946-1949

Box 159 location: 390/46/3/06

Records Regarding the Foreign Exchange Depository 1947-1949

Boxes 160-167 location: 390/46/3/07

Box # File Title and/or Subject

160 Auswanderungterel-Prague

Authorizations for Assets Released by FED [Foreign Exchange

Depository]

Claims 1948-1949

Claims Instigated by Publicity given Non-Monetary Gold turned over to

IRO[International Refugee Organization]72

Correspondence re Transfer of Funds out of Germany

 

72 The IRO was established in 1948. 
71

Crown Jewels

Currencies; Currencies Restitution

Currencies Section FED

Customs

161 Dachau Envelopes

Disposition (Restitution) of Foreign Currencies and Securities Found in

Germany

Disposition of Valuables

Eva Braun’s Assets73

Engraving Plates-German Currencies

FED; FED Admin.

162 FED Correspondence Since 1 March 1948

FED Daily Reports (1948-1949)

FED Monthly Reports (1948-1949)

FED-IRO [International Refugee Organization]

FED Item No. 3; FED Item No. 32

163 FED Releases 1948; FED Releases 1949

FED Tripartite Commission

Foreign Exchange Depository

164 Gold File (Brussels)

Goering Jewels

Foreign Exchange Depository-1948

165 Hohenzollern Jewels

Hungarian Gold

Inquiries from Soviet Zone re Stock held US Zone

International Bank for Reconstruction & Development

Inventory of Certain Currencies & Securities

166 Investment Moratorium

Krucken Case

Pierre Laval Assets

Linanses-Credit Lyonais

Misc. Fepg Policy

Monetary Gold (2 files)

Monetary Gold 1948-1949

167 Non-Monetary Gold Turnover of 5 September 1947

Non Monetary Gold (contains file 1/167/5 that contains SS Captain

Melmer’s statement,74 cables, and complete inventory of items transferred

to PCIRO75 in September 1947.

Precious Metals other than Gold & Silver

Restitution of Coins

Restitution of Monetary Gold

Weekly Reports or items held at FED 3 September 1948-22 April 1949

US Dollars FED

 

73 Adolf Hitler’s mistress from 1932 and his wife for a few hours in 1945.

74 “Melmer” gold or loot was used to describe SS loot from the Kaiseroda Mine. The term was derived from

the name of the SS officer responsible for receiving property from Jewish victims. He supervised their deposit at the

Reichsbank in Berlin.

75 The Prepatory Committee for the International Refugee Organization. It was established on July 1, 1947.
72

Reports Covering the Discovery, Removable, Gold, Silver, Platinum, and

Currency

Records of Subordinate Agencies

Records of the Financial Intelligence Group General Records 1945-49

Boxes 68-226 location: 390/46/4/01

Records Regarding Intelligence and Financial Investigations 1945-49

Boxes 227-237 location: 390/46/5/02

Box # File Title

227 Allied Control Authority

American Zone (11 files)

Austrian Accounts Reconcili. location: 390/46/5/02

228 Balance Sheet of Banks in U.S. Zone

Berlin-Statistics General Info

Black List (Berlin) Working File

Civil Government

Claims and Liabilities against Persons in Germany

Commer Bank-Frankfurt Stock Exchange

Complaint and Protection -Writings- Dr. Hjalmar Schacht

Control Council - Denazi Directives

Control Council Law #10

Currency and Bank Statistics

Copies of MG Law #60 location: 390/46/5/02

229 Denazification; Denazification - Frankfurt

Denazification Checks and Air Priorities

Denazification Intercepts

Depositions and Interrogations

Deutsche Bank Frankfurt-Stock Exchange Dealings

Deutsche Bank Report. This report is about the bank’s cloaking activities.

 location: 390/46/5/02

230 Dresdner Bank

Finance and Economics

Finance Division External Assets location: 390/46/5/03

231 F.O. Banking

General on Stock Exchange

Foreign Exchange Fund

German Stock Exchange Report

Frankfurt Stock Exchange

General Intelligence

Goldcup General Plan

Guide of Banking Positions location: 390/46/5/03

232 Intelligence Information on Fiscal condition in Czechoslovakia

Intelligence Information on Fiscal condition in Belgium

Intelligence Information on Danish Economic and Fiscal Conditions in

Denmark

Index of files from Berlin location: 390/46/5/03

233 Intelligence Information on Fiscal Condition in Holland

Intelligence Reports - Nurnberg
73

Interrogations of Ohlendorf

Investigations - Henkel and Co.

Investigation - Kurt Schmitt

Investigation - Vereinigte Stahlwerke

Leaders on German Foreign Exchange Agencies

M.G. Law 5276 - Dr. Binder

Men to be placed on Watch List

location: 390/46/5/03

234 Nazis dismissed from the German Banking 360

Nurnberg

 Nurnberg - Lt. Nixon

OSS Recommendations and others

Personalities re Watch List

Preliminary Interrogations of Heinrich Hunke

Reichsbank Reports location: 390/46/5/03

235 Removals - Nurnberg

Report on Dresdner Bank

Report on the Investigation of the Reichs-Kredit -Geselischaft

location: 390/46/5/03

236 Report on Hjalmar Schacht (3 files) Russian Zone for Distribution

location: 390/46/5/03

237 Schmid, Lossberg

Special Reports (Denazification Teams)

Six Months Review

Stock Exchange and Stock Statistics

Switzerland Economics

Johannes Tuergeler

Weekly Report of Activities

Weekly Statistical Data from German Department for Finance

White List

Year End Statements

location: 390/46/5/04

Reports of Assets and Liabilities of Insurance Institutions 1947-1948

Boxes 260-264 location: 390/46/5/07

Records of the Internal and External Finance Group and Its Predecessors

Records of Predecessor Branches

 

76 In September 1944, soon after United States troops had crossed the German border, the Supreme

Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) promulgated this law, enabling the allies to take the action

envisaged in the London Declaration of January 5, 1943. Law 52 made all property in Germany subject to seizure

and management by the military government. It covered not only property owned or controlled by the German

government but also the property of organizations and clubs dissolved by military government, property of the

governments and citizens of the United Nations, absentee owners, including the governments and citizens of the

United Nations. The law prohibited transactions in cultural materials of value or importance regardless of ownership

and in property owned or controlled by religious, educational, cultural, and scientific institutions. Everyone having

custody of property covered by the law was ordered to hold it subject to the direction of military government and to

accept certain responsibilities for custody, preservation, and keeping of records. Law 52 thus was the foundation of

“Property Control.”
74

Correspondence and Related Records of the Foreign Exchange Policy Group 1945-48

Boxes 265-267 location: 390/46/6/01

Records of the Foreign Exchange and Blocking Control Branch of the Foreign Exchange

Policy Group 1945-48

Boxes 268-294 location: 390/46/6/01

Records of the Internal and External Finance Group

General Records 1947-49

Boxes 295-300 location: 390/46/6/05

Correspondence and Related Records Regarding Accounts, Assets, and Payments 

September 1946-September 1949

Boxes 301-304 location: 390/46/6/06

Correspondence and Other Records Regarding Property Claims 1948-1950

Boxes 305-313 location: 390/46/6/06

Applications and Related Records for Special Licenses to Engage in Transactions

related to Blocked Property 1945

Boxes 354-387 location: 390/46/7/06

Records Relating to Displaced Persons 1946-1949

Boxes 388-391 location: 390/46/8/04

Records of the Foreign Exchange Depository Group

Central Files 1945-50

Boxes 392-466

location: 390/46/8/05

Box # File # and/or Subject

392 Files US Dollar Account thru Weekly Information Bulletin location:

390/46/8/05

393 Files Outgoing Correspondence January 1946 thru 300.61 Letters, OMGUS

location: 390/46/8/05

394 Files 310.3 Removal of Assets from FED thru 900.151 Title 16, Finance. 

Included is File 900.13 “History of Depository Section” and File 900.10

“Organization and History of FED,” which includes photos of the facility,

progress reports, and histories of operations. Box also contains information

about $1 million in loot from concentration camps being given to the

International Refugee Organization. location: 390/46/8/05

395 Files 900.152 Title 17, Property Control thru 900.45 Inspections, IG

location: 390/46/8/05

396 Files 900.80 Joint Foreign Exchange Agency thru 910.12 Cables, Incoming,

USFET location: 390/46/8/05

397 Files 900.13 Cables, Outgoing, USFET thru 910.37 SOP-Stencils location:

390/46/8/05

398 Files 910.44 Memorandums, Currency Section thru 910.721 Vault Entry

Register location: 390/46/8/06
75

399 Files 910.73 Internal Security, Violations thru 910.92 Daily Journals, 1949

location: 390/46/8/06

400 Files 90.92 Daily Journals, 1948 thru 910.98 Weekly FED Status Report

location: 390/46/8/06

401 Files 920.401 FED Space and Liquidation thru Inventory Forms 1001 thru

1200 location: 390/46/8/06

402-414 Inventory Forms 1201 thru 15,900 location: 390/46/8/06

415 Files 930.72 General Work Papers thru 940.002(02) Belgium “B” location:

390/46/9/01

416 Files 940.002(03) Belgium Claim #9847 thru 940.05 Netherland Gold; box

contains claims records relating to the Rothchilds jewels. location:

390/46/9/01

417 Files 940.031 Claims Netherlands (Bank of Meppel) thru 940.037 Claims

Netherlands (2589-H) location: 390/49/9/01

418 Files 940.04 Claims Czechoslovakia (Jewelry) thru 940.07 Claims

Yugoslavia General location: 390/46/9/01

419 Files 940.075 Claims Degussa Silve thru 940.076 I.G. Farben Platinum

location: 390/46/9/02

420 Files 940.08 Claims, Individuals thru 940.151 Claims, Restitution Currency.

 Box contains records relating to the Final report on Paris Conference on

Reparations, and File 940.15B on Restitution Policy.. location: 390/46/9/02

421 Files 940.151 Currency, Merkers Mine thru 940.154 Restitution, Monetary

Gold. Contains File 940.154 2nd Turnover to IRO [International Refugee

Organization] location: 390/46/9/02

422 Contains files 940.1551 “Monetary Gold 2nd Distribution” contains Colonel

Bernard Bernstein’s report on SS loot and 940.1551 “Restitution-Monetary

Gold” location: 390/46/9/02

423 Files 940.16 Reparations Paris Conference thru 940.308 Investigations

Danish Gold. Also contains files on “monetary gold” and “inventory gold”

as well as File 940.304, that contains information about the Melmer SS

account at Reichsbank; includes statement by Albert Thoms77 ; information

on the distribution of looted SS gold; an order of May 16, 1939 for Jews to

give up their possessions; list of individual saving account records from

concentration camp victims; and detailed interview with Emil Puhl. location:

390/46/9/02

424 Files 940.309 Precious Metals thru 940.401 Joint Inventory, Schedule C.

Includes records relating to gold found in various locations; records of gold

smelting at Prussian Mint; and index of records held by Reichsbank.

location: 390/46/9/02

425 Files 940.401 Merkers Mine thru 940.401 Gold List. Includes Merkers

Mine-inventories of art objects; also detailed listing of gold bar numbers.

location: 390/46/9/02

426 Files 940.401 Gold List “E” thru 940.401 Shipment # 1 Shipping Tickets

location: 390/46/9/03

427-438 Shipment records, including records relating to the return of Hungarian

silver( Box 428) and a history of Hungarian gold (Box 429) location:

 

77 He had served at the Reichsbank since 1910. He had been in the Precious Metals Department since 1930

and was named to head the department around 1939.
76

390/46/9/03

439 Files 940.40112 Shipment #112 thru 940.5604 Interrogations, Published.

The latter includes interrogations of Karl Jahnke, Emil Puhl, Karl Graupner

and Karl Friedrich Wilhelm, all of the Reichsbank. location: 390/46/9/04

440 Contains file 940.60 “Gold Report and Original Worksheets” contains the

Howard78 Report inventory of negotiable gold from Kaiseroda Mine and

elsewhere. The “overall” report contained in this box relating to looted gold,

provides details on gold bars in Germany and shipped elsewhere, and

amounts of gold and silver teeth. location: 390/46/9/05

441 Contains “Gold Report worksheets,” used to generate the Howard Report

inventory of gold at FED, summer 1945. Provides detailed information on

gold bars. location: 390/46/9/05

442 Files 940.601 Gold, Belgium thru 940.601 Monetary Gold-Italy. Box

contain information on gold looted from Austria; shipments of gold to

Spain; shipments of gold from Italy to Germany in 1944; and interview with

Emil Puhl. location: 390/46/9/05

443 Files 940.607 Czechoslovakia Gold thru 940.6082 Netherland Gold.

Contains report on the gold looted from the National Bank of Bohemia and

Moravia; report of gold looted from the Netherlands; Bank for International

Settlements letters on moving gold in the Bank of England. location:

390/46/9/05

444 Files 940.6096 Gold Transaction-Swedish Riksbank thru 940.64 Gold

Tripartite Commission. Contains details of gold shipments to Sweden; gold

transferred to depot at Constance Germany for the Bank for International

Settlements; letters between Emil Puhl and the Bank for International

Settlements; gold stocks at Reichsbank by account; report on hidden German

gold reserves; London Times article on German hidden gold reserves;

German foreign office gold holdings; and Ribbentrop gold fund. location:

390/46/9/05

445 Files 940.65 German Foreign Office thru 950.035 Reichman Currency

Account location: 390/46/9/05

446 Files 950.280 POW Payments-Instructions thru 950.2834 CorrespondenceOMGUS Greater Hesse location: 390/46/9/05

447-450 Correspondence with other elements of OMGUS. location: 390/46/9/06

451 Files 950.2874 Wuerttenberg-Baden thru 950.311 Currency-Counterfeit

Investigation location: 390/46/9/06

452-462 Currency and Funds location: 390/46/9/06

463 Files 960.12 Inventory Gold thru 960.17 Supplement Catalogue 01

Securities. Includes File 960.15 Inventory of SS loot location:

390/46/10/01

464 Files 960.20 Appraisal General thru 960.61 Security officer Daily Report

1947 location: 390/46/10/01

465 Files 960.61 Security Officer Daily Report 1946 location: 390/46/10/01

466 Files 960.61 Security Officer Daily Report Janaury 1948 thru 960.902

Marshalling of Assets in the U.S. Zone location: 390/46/10/01

Miscellaneous Records Regarding Operations 

 

78 Howard was the senior Treasury Department official at the Foreign Exchange Depository.
77

Payments, and Shipments 1945-1948

Boxes 467-471 location: 390/46/10/01

Box # File # and/or Subject

467-468 Liquidation of SHAEF Currency Section, first custodians of gold, Currency

Section inventories and related records. location: 390/46/10/02

469 Currency Section inventories, cables and Files 11/427/11 and 11/427/13

contain standard operating procedures on transfer of non-monetary gold to

PCIRO. location: 390/46/10/02

470-471 Files on “Merkers’s Mine Report,” including rough inventory of gold plus

files on restitution by country, and related material. location: 390/46/10/02

Records Relating to Operations “Birdog” and “Doorknob” 1945-1950

Records pertain to efforts to have the American Bank Note Company and the Bureau of

Engraving and Printing produce German currency. Within the files is very specific information

about the shipments of ucovered/looted monetary and non-monetary gold and other valuables to

Frankfurt, 1945. Note: the first two boxes in this series appear to be a continuation of the

Miscellaneous records. Box 472 contains “vouchers” containing detailed inventories of every

shipment of valuable received by the FED. Box 473 contains the end of the previous section of

file. Included are “Inventories of Shipments,” which are inventories for the first 64 shipments of

valuables received by the FED; and “Statements of shipments,” which includes a register of

shipments received by the FED. Box 83 contains a Prussian Mint gold bar list.

Boxes 472-483 location: 390/46/10/02

Records Relating to Shipments of Gold and Silver 1945-1947

Contains records relating to deliveries of monetary gold to various countries, gold bar lists,

and a file “Analysis of Gold,” which are reconciliations of Howard Report with actual gold count

by the Foreign Exchange Depository.

Boxes 484-488 location: 390/46/10/04

Records Relating to Tabulation and Classification of Deposits 1945-1949

Includes inventory worksheets (Boxes 489-526), gold and diamond lists, currency and

coins records, records relating to securities, and shipping records, records.

Boxes 489-559 location: 390/46/10/05

Inventory Forms of Assets Released 1945-1947

Boxes 560-563 location: 390/46/12/01

Miscellaneous Registers 1945-1949

Boxes 564-567 location: 390/46/12/01

Records of the Currency Section, Financial Branch, G-5 Supreme Headquarters, Allied

Expeditionary Forces (SHAEF) 1944-1945

Boxes 568-574 location: 390/46/12/02

Records of the Currency Section 1944-1945

Includes records pertaining to Reichsbank safe deposit (Box 578) and records pertaining

to Eva Braun (Box 580),
78

Boxes 575-582 location: 390/46/12/03

Records of the U.S. Allied Commission for Austria (USACA) Section of Headquarters, U.S. Forces in

Austria

The U.S. Allied Commission for Austria (USACA) Section was responsible for civil affairs/military

government administration. It was organized concurrently with the establishment of Headquarters, United

States Forces Austria (HQ USFA), July 5, 1945, as a component of U.S. Forces, European Theater

(USFET). The single position of Commanding General USFA and U.S. High Commissioner for Austria

was held successively by General Mark Clark, July 5, 1945-May 16, 1947; and Lieutenant General

Geoffrey Keyes, May 17, 1947-September 19, 1950.79 USACA Section provided the U.S. element of

organizations comprising the Allied Commission for Austria, the name of four-power occupation

administration established by a U.S., British, French, and Soviet agreement, signed July 4, 1945, and made

effective July 24, 1945. USACA Section also administered occupation government in U.S. zone of

Austria and U.S. sector of Vienna. USACA Section was abolished following transfer of U.S. occupation

government from military to civilian authority, marked by the Presidential appointment of Walter J.

Donnelly as Envoy (later Ambassador) to Austria and U.S. High Commissioner for Austria, effective

September 20, 1950. Donnelly was succeeded by Ambassador Llewelyn E. Thompson, Jr., July 17, 1952.

 U.S. occupation government in Austria officially terminated July 27, 1955, the date of the entrance into

force of the State Treaty for the Re-establishment of an Independent and Democratic Austria, signed May

15, 1955.

Records of the Director of USACA

Decimal Files, 1946-1951 (Entry 101)

Boxes 1-74 location: 390/52/35/01

Records of the Reparations and Restitution Branch

Records Relating to Claims, 1945-1950 (Entry 102)

Boxes 1-52 location: 390/53/3/06

General Records, 1945-1950 (Entry 103)

Boxes 153-167 location: 390/53/6/06

Records of the German External Assets Branch

Reports on Businesses 1945-1950 (Entry 107)

Boxes 1-158 location 390/53/7/03

General Records 1945-1950 (Entry 108)

Boxes 159-216 location: 390/53/10/04

Miscellaneous Records 1945-1950 (Entry 109)

Boxes 217-222 location: 390/53/10/05

Boxes 223-236 location: 390/B/7/01

GEA Reports on Austria Firms Wholly Owned by German Companies (Entry 110) Box

237 location: 390/53/10/06

 

79 For General Keyes personal papers, see Lt. General Geoffrey Keyes “Personal-Official File,” 1934-1954

(Boxes 1-9 location: 130/76/01/04) in the National Archives Gift Collection (RG 200).
79

Box lists for these records are available.

Records of the Property Control Branch

Correspondence and Related Records (P Files’) Regarding Pending Claims, 1945-1950

(Entry 116)

Boxes 1-24 location: 390/53/19/04

Correspondence Relating to Claims and Queries 1945-1950 (Entry 117)

Boxes 1-31 location: 390/53/19/07

General Correspondence Files 1945-1950 (Entry 119)

Boxes 1-11 location: 390/53/20/05

Miscellaneous Correspondence 1945-1950 (Entry 120)

Boxes 1-12 location: 390/53/20/07

Reports on Property Control and Restitution Claims 1945-1951 (Entry 123)

Box 1 location: 390/53/21/04

Claims - Upper Austria 1945-1951 (Entry 124)

Boxes 1-5 location: 390/53/21/04

Claims and Restitution Reports on Property Administered. By The Military Government. 1939-

1950 (Entry 125)

Boxes 1-2 location: 390/53/21/06

The Naval Establishment Records

Records of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (RG 38)

By an Executive order of December 18, 1941, the Commander in Chief of the United States Fleet was

removed from the authority of the Chief of Naval Operations and was put in supreme command of the

Navy’s operating forces. On March 12, 1942, however, another Executive order made provision for

combining the duties of the Commander in Chief, United States Fleet, and those of the Chief of Naval

Operations and assigned them to one office with the title of “Commander in Chief, United States Fleet, and

Chief of Naval Operations.” This official would serve as the principal naval adviser to the President on the

conduct of the war, and principal naval adviser and executive to the Secretary of the Navy on the conduct

of the activities of the Naval Establishment. Admiral Ernest J. King, who had become Commander in

Chief, United States Fleet, in December 1941, was given the dual role, and retained it during the remainder

of the war. As Chief of Naval Operations he succeeded Admiral Harold R. Stark, who had held that office

since before the outbreak of the war in Europe in 1939.

Records of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Administrative)

Division of Pan American Affairs and United States Naval Missions 1940-1946

With the outbreak of World War II, the increased importance and complexity of problems

with respect to Latin American relations resulted in the establishment of a Pan American Division

set up directly under the Chief of Naval Operations in January 1942. Rear Admiral W. O. Spears,

who had been named Director of the new division, had previously been assigned duty in the Office

of the Chief of Naval Operations in June 1940 to exercise overall supervision of naval missions.
80

After World War II, the division became the Division of Pan American Affairs and United

States Naval Missions, responsible for the administering of United States naval missions and

advisory groups; for assisting in plans for effective naval cooperation with the American republics;

and for the arranging of training in the United States of armed forces personnel of these and other

countries.

Correspondence relating to Hemispheric Security 1940-1945 (Entry 48B)

This series contains copies of intelligence reports prepared by naval and military attaches

in Latin American countries concerning political elections; political developments; and other

related subjects. Also included are memorandums concerning agreements made during the years

1940-1942 for cooperation against possible Axis aggression. Most of the records relate to Lend

Lease. The records are arranged by country and thereunder according to an alpha-numeric filing

scheme.

Boxes 1-2 location: 370/12/13/05

Records of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Operations)

The Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Operations), holding the rank of Vice Admiral,

under the authority and direction of the Chief of Naval Operations, prepared strategic plans and

policies and was responsible for the organization, operational development, readiness,

administration, and operations of seagoing forces, sea frontiers, and overseas naval command

areas. He had the overall direction of the Intelligence Service, evaluated and disseminated

operational information, and had representation on joint operational agencies.

Records of the Office of Naval Intelligence

During World War II the Naval Intelligence Division was part of the “Services” group

under the Sub Chief of Naval Operations. During the war the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)

was responsible for the collection and distribution of naval intelligence for Navy bureaus and

offices. It cooperated closely with the Military Intelligence Division (MID), the Federal Bureau of

Investigation, the State Department, the Office of U.S. Censorship, and the British Imperial

Censorship Office. Since Headquarters, Commander-in-Chief , United States Fleet (COMINCH)

and ONI both carried on intelligence activities, a more clear-cut distinction was made between

them when COMINCH established the Combat Intelligence Division on July 1, 1943. The general

line of demarcation between their duties was that the Naval Intelligence Division was responsible

for strategic intelligence and the Combat Intelligence Division was responsible for operational

intelligence.

The Foreign Economic Administration (FEA) asked the Office of Naval Intelligence to

furnish Safehaven data to it whenever possible. In case at least, that of Tangier, the Naval Attache

sent reports of a very useful nature relating to enemy assets and enemy influence in that territory. 

On the basis of its reception of these reports, the FEA requested that naval attaches in other neutral

territories be requested to initiate similar studies.

ONI in April 1945, issued a special report (FT-11-2-45) defining its Safehaven program

and tying it in with current Naval interests. The report was planned to expedite the securing of

Safehaven data and was distributed to Naval Commands abroad, Naval Attaches, Liaison Officers,

and District Intelligence Officers.80

General Records

 

80 Clarke, “Safehaven Study,” p. 113.
81

Formerly Security Classified Administrative Correspondence 1941-1945 (Entry 85A)

This series is arranged according to the Navy Filing Manual, a copy of which is

located in the consultation area in Room 2400.

Boxes 1-451 location: 370/14/14/02

Subject Index to Naval Attache Reports in Series 98A, 98B, and 98C 1940-1947

(Entry 95A)81

This index is arranged alphabetically under 30 major headings, including: all nations;

commerce; financial; government, foreign relations; social and economic conditions; and, societies

and organizations. Under each of the major headings the cards are arranged by subject or country,

and thereunder by subject or country. Included on the cards are register number, file designation,

date, title, the source of the information, and the original security classification on the document. 

Also included on some cards are lists of the enclosures to the document and cross-references to

other subjects in the index. The index has been microfilmed and is available as NARA Microfilm

Publication M1332.

Boxes 1-35 location: 370/13/9/05

Formerly Confidential Reports of Naval Attaches 1940-1946 (Entry 98A)

This series consists of intelligence reports submitted by naval attaches based upon their

observations concerning foreign naval activities. Most reports contain military, economic, and

political information about the country. The series is arranged by subject classification number

and thereunder numerically. See series 95A for a subject index for the World War II intelligence

summaries and reports.

Boxes 1-1276 location: 370/13/10/01

Confidential Reports of Naval Attaches 1940-1946 (Entry 98A)

This series is arranged alphabetically by the name of a city.

Boxes 1277-1349 location: 370/14/1/04

Formerly Secret Reports of Naval Attaches 1940-1945 (Entry 98B)

These records are much like those described above but were classified Secret. Arranged by

subject classification number and thereunder numerically , with a few reports arranged by a

separate number scheme at the end of the series. See series 95A for a subject index for the World

War II intelligence summaries and reports.

Boxes 1-488 location: 370/14/3/01

Formerly Top Secret Reports of Naval Attaches 1940-1947 (Entry 98C)

These records are much like those described in series 98A. Also included in this series is

correspondence relating to counter-espionage activities within the various embassies; excerpted

foreign intelligence reports; and comments on current political events in foreign countries. The

records are arranged by top secret document control number. 41 rolls 35mm negative microfilm;

19 rolls 35mm positive microfilm contained in boxes 16 and 17. Boxes 1-15 contained textual

records. A partial list of files is available in the first box of the series, as well as in the

consultation area in Room 2400.
82

Boxes 1-17 location: 370/14/13/03

Records of the Foreign Intelligence Branch

The Foreign Intelligence Branch was responsible for the obtaining, evaluating, and

disseminating information concerning foreign countries, especially that affecting naval and

maritime matters. In addition, it directed the activities of US naval attaches and maintained liaison

with foreign naval attaches accredited to the United States. An important aspect of the Branch’s

task was the preparation of the so-called naval monographs, which were compiled for all countries

with sea power. The monographs, which were indexed and kept current, supplied essential naval,

political, and economic information in regard to possible enemies or allies.

Foreign Intelligence Branch Office and Historical Files 1939-1945 (Entry UD2)

Boxes 1-6 location: 370/14/35/06

Box # Subject

4 ONI Liaison Office to Board of Economic Warfare, 1942-1945

German Monograph Files 1939-1945 (Entry UD78)

This series is arranged mostly by the ONI Monograph Guide which is a numeric filing

system.

Boxes 1-35 location: 370/15/27/07

Latin America Monograph Files 1920-1945 (Entry UD83)

This series is arranged first alphabeticlly by the name of the country and thereunder by the

ONI Monograph Guide which is a numeric filing system.

Boxes 1-67 location: 370/15/29/01

Foreign Publications and Reports 1940-1950 (Entry UD 88)

Arranged alphabetically by name of country/geographical location. A folder list is

available in the consultation area in Room 2400.

Boxes 1-76 location: 370/15/30/06

Correspondence with Naval Attaches, Observers, and Liaison Officers 1930-1948

(Entry UD3)

Arranged alphabetically by name of cities.

Boxes 1-6 location: 370/14/35/07

Boxes 7-18 location: 370/15/1/02

Records of the Foreign Trade Section

Formerly Security Classified Reports and Dispatches Recieved Related to Enemy

Shipping 1941-1945 (Entry 176)

This series, which is arranged topically (sometimes by the name of ship), contains

intelligence reports, dispatches, booklets, pamphlets, and other material received from Europe and

the Far East relating to enemy shipping, axis blockade runners and raiders.

 

81 This series also contains references to Reports (“Registers”) of Naval Attaches, 1886-1922 (Entry 98),

which are located in the Archives I Building and serviced by the Archives I Textual Reference Branch.
83

Box 1 location: 370/15/6/01

Naval Attache Office Files

Lisbon, Portugal

Administrative File 1942-949 (Entry UD53)

Boxes 1-3 location: 370/15/14/01

Madrid, Spain

Administrative Files, 1946-1955 (Entry UD50)

Boxes 1-12 location: 370/15/13/07

Stockholm, Sweden

Correspondence 1941-1946 (Entry UD48)

Boxes 1-3 location: 370/15/13/06

Captured Records

National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized (RG 242)

The National Archives established this Record Group in 1947 for records in federal custody that had been

captured from the Axis Powers during World War II, or seized from the defeated Axis Powers at the end of

the war. Nearly all of the originals of the seized World War II record have been returned to their country

of origin, with the National Archives retaining microfilm copies.

This Record Group contains some documentation on German-Swiss financial transactions, 1933-1945. 

Pertinent indexes to Records of the German Foreign Ministry are available upon request. Additional

material may be included in records of the Reich Ministry of Economics (described in NARA German

Guide 1). Records of the Deutsches Auslands Institute, Stuttgart, were identified by American officials in

the postwar period as a potential source of information on German external assets. Records of this agency

are included in the NARA collection and described in NARA German Guides 16 and 21. Also of potential

interest are records of the German Plenipotentiary General for the Serbian Economy, described in NARA

Guide 89, and pertaining exclusively to the exploitation of Jewish-owned assets in occupied Serbia. A

complete search of our 70,000-roll microfilm collection would possibly yield more material pertinent to

German external assets. It should be noted that most all of the NARA Captured German Records

Collection consists of microfilm copies of original records that were returned to Germany and are in the

custody of the German Bundesarchiv.

Researchers should consult Microfilm Resources for Research: A Comprehensive Catalog

(Washington, DC, National Archives and Records Administration, 1996) for listings of microfilm copies

of captured German records. Researchers should also consult Robert Wolfe, ed., Captured German and

Related Records: A National Archives Conference. (National Archives Conferences Volume 3,

published by Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1974).

This volume contains sections on The Role of the United States Army in the Use of Captured German

Records; The Historical and Legal Use of Captured German and Related Records by the United States

Armed Forces; The Role of the Department of State in the Use of Captured German Records; Some

Specialized Captured Records and Their Uses; and The Role of the National Archives in the Use of

Captured German and Related Records.

Records of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories, 1922-1945
84

(Entry 21A)

This series contains press reports, books, pamphlets, newspapers, magazines, and reports

relating to the economies of Russia, the Balkans, other European countries, and the United States.

Boxes 110-126 location: 190/14/26/01

Records of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories, 1941-1945

(Entry 21B)

1 roll of 35mm positive microfilm, roll. 110.

Box 1 location: 190/14/26/04

Reich Ministry of Finance (Photoprints of Records of the Reich Ministry of Finance, 

Reichstinanzministerium), 1937-1945 (Entry 50)

Boxes 22-30 location: 190/14/32/06

Private German Enterprise; Dresdner Bank (Microfilm Copies and Photoprints of Records of the

Dresdner Bank) 1931-1944 (Entry 223)

176 rolls of 35mm negative microfilm

Boxes 1-4 location: 190/15/33/07

Private German Enterprises; Original and Microfilm Copies of Records of the I.G. Farben 

Industrial Firm, 1928-1945 (Entry 224)

83 rolls of 35 mm negative microfilm

Boxes 1-4 location: 190/15/34/01

Hq. US Group C.C. Finance Division APO 742; Reports of Financial Aspects of Germany 

1945 (Entry UD 282BF)

6 rolls of 35mm positive microfilm.

Box 1 location: 190/20/2/01

Collections of Miscellaneous Foreign Records; Portuguese Section (Entry UD 324)

Boxes 175-178 location: 190/18/8/04

Collections of Miscellaneous Foreign Records; Spanish Section (Entry UD 326) Boxes 181-183

location: 190/18/8/05

Collections of Miscellaneous Foreign Records; Swedish Section (Entry UD 327)

Boxes 184-200 location: 190/18/8/06

Collections of Miscellaneous Foreign Records; Swiss Section (Entry UD 328)

Box 201 location: 190/18/9/01

Collections of Miscellaneous Foreign Records; Turkish/Arabic Section (Entry UD 329)

Box 202 location: 190/18/9/01

Guides of German Records Microfilmed at Alexandria VA 1958 (Entry ZZ1)

Boxes 1-208 & 176A location: 190/22/3/02

Other Guides to Captured German Records, 1950 (Entry ZZ2)
85

Boxes 1-24 location: 190/22/7/04

Center for Captured German and Related Records; Reference Collection; Foreign Office

and Ministry of Economic Warfare (Entry ZZ30)

Boxes 1-3 location: 190/22/25/06

Guides to German Records (Entry ZZ1001)

Boxes 1-2 location: 190/22/30/02

Guides to German Records Filmed at Alexandria (entry ZZ1003)

Box 4 location: 190/22/30/02

War Crimes Records

National Archives Collection of World War II War Crimes Records (RG 238)

The major war crimes trials, the International Military Tribunal held at Nuremberg, lasted from November

20, 1945 to October 1946. Of the 23 major defendants, one, Martin Bormann was tried in absentia, and

another, Robert Ley, committed suicide in prison before the trial began. Hjalmar Schacht, Franz von

Papen, and Hans Fritzsche were acquited. The remaining defendants were found guilty of one or more of

the four counts.

Other major war crimes trials were held on Control Council Law Number Ten of December 1945, that

entitled any of the four forces that were occupying Germany to arrange their own zonal prosecutions. That

same law empowered the Americans, as occupiers of Germany’s southeastern zone, to launch a second

phase of proceedings at Nuremberg. This second phase, the U.S. Military Tribunals, between November

1946 and April 1949, heard 185 cases as part of 12 different trials. Among these trials was “The Flick

Case,” involving industrialists’ complicity in the confiscation of Jewish property.

The war crimes records will provide researchers with detailed information on the origins, activities, and

results of the various war crimes trials. In prepartion for the trials much documentary evidence was

gathered for the prosecution of war criminals. This documentary evidence includes information about the

financial and economic dealings of the Axis officials.82

Researchers desiring to use the records in this Record Group should consult the finding aids in the

consultation area in Room 2400. These finding aids provide descriptions and locations of the records. 

Researchers may also wish to consult the publications listed below.

Governmental Publications (available in the consultation area in Room 2400)

The Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 14

November 1945-1 October 1946. 46 vols. (Nuremberg, 1947-1949).83

 

82 Researchers should find useful Robert Wolfe, ed., Captured German and Related Records: A National

Archives Conference. (National Archives Conferences Volume 3, published by Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press,

1974). This volume contains a section on The Historical and Legal Use of Captured German and Related Records

by the United States Armed Forces that contains a paper delivered by Telford Taylor entitled “The Use of Captured

German and Related Records in the Nurnberg War Crimes Trials,” pp. 92-100.

83 These volumes contain the day-to-day proceedings and slightly more than half of the documents offered

in evidence by the prosecution and the defense. Volumes 2-22 are the complete trial transcripts; volumes 25-42 are

documents or excerpts from documents keyed to the transcripts. The documents are mostly in German, though each
86

Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression. 10 vols. (Washington, DC, 1946-1948)84

Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law No.

10, October 1946-April 1949 15 vols. (Washington DC, 1949-1953)85

Records

Records of the Office of the U.S. Commissioner, United Nations War Crimes Commission 

1943-1948

7 lin. ft.

Records of the Office of the U.S. Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality 

(OUSCCPAC) 1945-1946

429 lin. ft. and 77 rolls of microfilm.

Records of the Office of Chief of Counsel for War Crimes (OCCWC) 1945-949

579 lin. ft. and 319 rolls of microfilm.

Records of the Secretariat for U.S. Military Tribunals 1946-1949

684 lin. ft.

 

document is introduced by a brief description in English. Volumes 23 and 24 are indexes--volume 23 to the

testimony and volume 24 to the documents.

84 These volumes, to some extent, duplicate the above volumes, but they also complement them since they

include material not put before the court. They contain the documentary evidence prepared by American and British

prosecutors, who were responsible for the case against those charged with preparing for and waging aggressive war.

85 These volumes contain selected portions of the record in translation, including the most important parts

of the testimony and a number of prosecution and defense exhibits.
87

CIVILIAN AGENCY RECORDS

Department of State and Foreign Affairs Records

The principal responsibility for the determination of the policy of the government in relation to

international problems devolves upon the Department of State. Some of the more vital decisions on

questions of foreign affairs are made by the President, but the day-to-day negotiations with foreign

countries, the specific measures for the protection of American interests and the promotion of solidarity

with friendly countries, and the conduct of the voluminous correspondence with the diplomatic and

consular representatives of the United States as well as with the representatives of foreign powers

accredited to the United States are delegated to the Department of State.

The multitude of foreign relations problems arising from World War II necessitated a broadening of many

phases of the Department’s work. The wartime functions of the Department included the conduct of warrelated negotiations with foreign countries; collaboration with other Government agencies in the mapping

of broad strategies and in the determination of questions of foreign policy relating to lend-lease and

economic warfare against the Axis; and the coordination of other foreign policy aspects of wartime

operations. The Department also conducted special research and discussions; formulated policies, and

planned programs relating to post-war political and economic reconstruction as it pertained to the foreign

relations of the United States

Throughout most of the war Cordell Hull was the Secretary of State. Upon his resignation in November,

1944, he was succeeded by Edward R. Stenttinius, Jr., who in turn resigned in June 1945 and was

succeeded by James F. Byrnes. The Under Secretary of State was the principal assistant to the Secretary of

State, and in the absence of the Secretary he served as Acting Secretary. Sumner Welles was Under

Secretary of States from before the outbreak of the war until September 1943. He was succeeded by

Edward R. Stettinius, Jr.; Joseph C. Grew in December 1944; and Dean Acheson in August 1945,

successively. 

PRINTED SOURCES

Foreign Relations of the United States [a publication of the State Department that serves as a key

finding aid to the records because the documents selected for printing include the source file

designation.]

FRUS, 1944, Vol. II, pp. 213-251. “Concern of the United States over Enemy Attempts to Secrete

Funds or Other Assets in Neutral Countries; Inception of the Safehaven Program.”

FRUS, 1945, Vol. II, pp. 852-932. “Concern of the United States over Enemy Attempts to Secrete

Funds or Other Assets in Neutral Countries; Implementation of the Safehaven Program.”

FRUS, 1946, Vol. V, pp. 202-220. “Implementation of the Safehaven Program; Negotiation of

Accords with Switzerland and Sweden on Liquidation of German External Assets in their

Countries.”

General Records of the Department of State (RG 59)

Central File Records

All correspondence and other records were arranged and filed by subject in one series called the Decimal

File (to 1963) and the Subject-Numeric File (1963-1973). 

The decimal file, basically a subject file with predetermined subjects designated by a decimal code, has

subjects grouped into nine major classes as follows:
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Class 0 Miscellaneous

Class 1 Administration of the U.S. Government

Class 2 Extradition

Class 3 Protection of private and national interests

Class 4 Claims

Class 5 International conferences and organizations

Class 6 Commerce, customs, trade

Class 7 Political relations of states

Class 8 Internal affairs of states

As papers accumulated under a specific subject they were assigned consecutive numbers, called enclosure

numbers, subordinate to the decimal classification and set off from it by a slash mark (/). The incoming

communication and accompanying reply were usually assigned the same enclosure number. The decimal

file number and enclosure number are stamped or typed on the first paper in each file. 

To illustrate the decimal filing system, a document dated in 1941 in the subject file for financial affairs in

Switzerland is 854.51/391. Class 8 is for the internal affairs of states, 54 is the number for Switzerland, 51

is for financial affairs, and the number after the slash mark (/) indicates there were 390 other documents in

the file dated from 1910 to 1941. A document dated in 1945 in the subject file for U.S. Claims against

Germany is 462.11/3-2345. Class 4 is for claims against Germany(62) by citizens of the United States(11),

and the number after the slash mark (/) indicates the date, March 23, 1945. The main subject file for

documents relating to World War II is 740.0011. Class 7 is for relations between states, 40 is for Europe,

00 is for the world, and 11 is for war. Within the main file there are hundreds of subfiles each containing

thousands of documents. Sometimes letters or words follow the number and are part of the file title. File

740.0016EW is for war crimes in Europe (13 boxes for the 1940-1944 period), file 740.00119EW is for

the termination of the war in Europe (15 boxes for the 1940-1944 period), and file 740.00119 Control

(Germany) is for the occupation of Germany (134 boxes for the 1945-1949 period).

The decimal file changed in 1950 although most country numbers remained the same:

Class 0 Miscellaneous

Class 1 Administration of the U.S. Government

Class 2 Protection of interests, persons and property [was class 3]

Class 3 International conferences and organizations [was class 5]

Class 4 International trade and commerce [was class 6]

Class 5 International informational and educational relations, cultural affairs

Class 6 International political relations [was in class 7]

[what was in class 8 was subdivided into classes 7,8, and 9]

Class 7 Internal political and national defense affairs

Class 8 Internal economic, industrial, and social affairs

Class 9 Other internal affairs--communications, transportation, science

Researchers not familiar with the State Department Central Files, as well as other State Department

records, are advised to consult with our subject matter experts in the consultation area in Room 2600. 

They also should consult the filing manuals for the 1910-1949 and 1950-1963 periods.

There are three basic finding aids for the Decimal File: Name Cards; Purport Lists and Purport Cards; and,

Source Card Index.

Name Cards

There is a name card index for each segment of the decimal file, arranged alphabetically,

that helps to locate subject files and documents of interest. It is not comprehensive. There is not a

card for each person named in every document, but it is useful for locating a document from or
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about a non-government entity or private individual.

Name Cards 1940-1949

Name Index to the Decimal File 1940-1944 (Entry 199C)

Boxes 1-1360 location: 250/1/19/01

Name Index to the Decimal File 1945-1949 (Entry 199D)

Boxes 1-511 location: 250/1/33/03

Of special note are the entries for the Bank for International Settlements

Box 32 location: 250/1/33/04

Purport Lists and Purport Cards

Every document in every file is listed on purport lists (1910-1944, NARA Microfilm

publication M-973) and purport cards (after July 1, 1944) that indicate date, from, to, file number,

and a brief description (“purport”) of each document. Purport lists and purport cards are arranged

in the same order as the records. Researchers should use them to help locate subject files of

interest or eliminate the need to examine other records in other subject files.

List of Documents (Purport Books) 1940-1944 (Entry 202C)

Arranged according to Decimal File classification. Lists of all letters and other documents

received and sent by the Department of State that are filed in the Decimal File. 

Boxes 1-594 location: 250/18/15/07

Lists of Documents (Purport Cards) July-December 1944 (Entry 203A)

Arranged according to Decimal File classification. 

Boxes 1-101 location: 250/18/28/01

Lists of Documents (Purport Cards) 1945-1949 (Entry 203B)

Arranged according to Decimal File classification.

Boxes 1-1187 location: 250/18/29/01

Source Card Index

There is a comprehensive source card index for each segment that lists every document

arranged by U.S. foreign service post, foreign embassy or legation, State Department office, or

other agency of the U.S. Government, thereunder by “to” and “from” and thereunder

chronologically. Source cards, like name cards, are useful primarily for identifying relevant

subject file numbers.

Source Cards 1940-1944 (Entry 198C)

Boxes 1-1060 location: 250/17/02/05

Source Cards 1945-1949 (Entry 198D)

Boxes 1-1211 location: 250/17/12/09

As noted above class 7 of the decimal file is for political relations of States. Each country,

continent, or geographical area had assigned a two-digit number; Europe was assigned number 40.

 When the war began, the State Department decided to index all war-related documents in file

740.0011EW for the European war. The documents relating to the Pacific war, considered an
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extension of the European war, were filed under 740.0011PW. These records, as well as records

filed under decimals 740.00 (General Political Affairs of Europe); 740.0011LCC (London

Coordinating Committee); 740.0011Moscow (Three-Power Conference held in Moscow in

October 1943); and 740.0011Stettinius Mission (Mission to London headed by Under Secretary of

State Edward R. Stettinius in March 1944) have been microfilmed as National Archives Microfilm

Publication M982.

Among the important decimal file numbers for both the 1940-1944 and 1945-1949 blocks

of the decimal file are:

740.00111EW Neutrality

740.00112EW Neutral and Enemy Commerce

740.00113EW Enemy Property

740.00114EW Prisoners of War

740.00115EW Civilian Prisoners and Enemy Non-combatants

740.00116EW Illegal and Inhuman Warfare

740.00119EW Termination of the War

800.515 World monetary system; bullion; non-monetary gold

1940-1944 Decimal File

Boxes 1-5930

Box #s Decimal #

2294-2545 740.00111 location: 250/32/4/04

2545-2754 740.00112 location: 250/32/11/01

2755-2773 740.00113 location: 250/32/17/03

2939-2964 740.00119 location: 250/32/23/02

3272-3283 800.515 location: 250/32/31/04

Boxes C1-C373 (Confidential File Boxes)

Box # Decimal#

C1-C2 800.515 location: 250/34/15/07

1945-1949 Decimal File

Box #s Decimal #s 

3489-3517 740.00111 location: 250/36/17/01

3517-3540 740.00112 location: 250/36/17/05

3647-3648 740.00119 location: 250/36/20/03

3648-3639 740.00119Control(Austria)86 location: 250/36/20/03

3662-3795 740.00119Control(Germany)87 location: 250/36/20/05

3797-3806 740.00119Control(Italy)88 location: 250/36/23/04

3836-3859 740.00119 Council89 location: 250/36/24/02

3857-3859 740.00119 EAC90 location: 250/36/24/05

3860-3936 740.00119EW location: 250/36/24/06

4177-425991 800.515 location: 250/36/31/02

 

86 Occupation and control of Austria.

87 Occupation and control of Germany.

88 Occupation and control of Italy.

89 Council of Foreign Ministers.

90 European Advisory Commission.
91

1950-1963 Decimal File92

Among the most import Decimal File numbers for the 1950-1954, 1955-1959, and 1960-

1963 time periods are those in class 2--protection of interests, class 3--international organizations,

and class 6--international political relations. Important Country Numbers include 00--the world,

11--United States, 54--Switzerland, and 62--Germany.

1950-1954 Decimal File

Box #s File # Subjects

863-864 200.1141 U.S. war claims, general; War Claims Commission; enemy

property in allied and neutral countries.

865-872 200.6241 German war claims, general; looted property; Tripartite Gold

Commission

894-897 211.6241 German assets in the United States

975 248.1141 U.S. assets in, claims against Poland

983-900 249.1141 U.S. assets in, calims against Czechoslovakia

1001-1005 251.1141 U.S. assets in, claims against France

1010 252.1141 U.S. assets in, calims agaist Spain

1011 252.6241 German assets in Spain; the Spanish Accord

1012 253.6241 German assets in Portugal; the Portuguese Accord

1016-1017 254.1141 U.S. assets in Switzerland

1017-1018 254.6241 German assets in Switzerland; the Swiss Accord

1020 255.1141 U.S. assets in, claims against Belgium

1024-1026 256.1141 U.S. assets in, claims against the Netherlands

1034-1035 258.1141 U.S. assets in, claims against Sweden

1040 261.1141 U.S. assets in, claims against the Soviet Union

1041-1056 262.0041 Reparations from Germany, IARA, Jewish claims against

Germany

1061-1064 262.1141 U.S. assets in, claims against Germany

1080-1081 263.0041 Reparations from Austria, restitution, Jewish claims against

Austria

1084-1088 263.1141 U.S. assets in, claims against Austria

1089 263.6241 German assets in Austria

1092-1093 264.1141 U.S. assets in, claims against Hungary

1093 265.0041 Reparations from Italy, the “Rome Treasure,” disposition of

non-monetary gold, Jewish claims

1147-1149 265.1141 U.S. assets in, claims against Italy

1151-1152 265.6341 German assets in Italy

1513-1522 398.10 German Debt Commission

1528-1535 398.10 Bank for International Settlements

2720 611.00231 WWI Blacklist; enemy property seized by the United States

2818 611.54231 Safehaven; blocking Swiss funds

2928 611.62231 Safehaven; blocking German funds

2929 654.62231 Safehaven; German funds in Switzerland

2951A-2952 662.00231 Safehaven; German funds in the world

 

91 There are no boxes 4219 and 4221, but no records are missing.

92 For assistance using these records, including the locations, please consult the staff in the consultation area

in Room 2600.
92

5048-5049 854.14 Banking in Switzerland; bank secrecy

1955-1959 Decimal File

Box # Decimal # Subjects

822-824 200.1141 U.S. war claims, general

825-827 200.6241 German war claims, general; Tripartite Gold Commission

856-993 211.6241 German assets in the United States

992-993 248.1141 U.S. assets in, claims against Poland

998-1001 249.1141 U.S. assets in, calims against Czechoslovakia

1022-1024 251.1141 U.S. assets in, claims against France

1037 252.1141 U.S. assets in, calims agaist Spain

1037-1038 252.6241 German assets in Spain; the Spanish Accord

1039 253.6241 German assets in Portugal; the Portuguese Accord

1044-1045 254.1141 U.S. assets in Switzerland

1045 254.6241 German assets in Switzerland; the Swiss Accord

1047 255.1141 U.S. assets in, claims against Belgium

1049-1051 256.1141 U.S. assets in, claims against the Netherlands

1060 258.1141 U.S. assets in, claims against Sweden

1060 258.6241 German assets in Sweden

1067-1068 261.1141 U.S. assets in, claims against the Soviet Union

1070-1074 262.0041 Reparations from germany, IARA, Jewish claims against

Germany

1076-1079 262.1141 U.S. assets in, claims against Germany

1098-1099 263.0041 Reparations from Austria, restitution, Jewish claims against

Austria

1104-1107 263.1141 U.S. assets in, claims against Austria

1108 263.6241 German assets in Austria

1110-1112 264.1141 U.S. assets in, claims against Hungary

1115 265.0041 Reparations from Italy, the “Italian Treasure,” division of

gold, Jewish claims

1133-1146 265.1141 U.S. assets in, claims against Italy

1147-1148 265.6341 German assets in Italy

1468-1469 398.10 German Debt Commission

1474-1479 398.10 Bank for International Settlements

2435 611.00231 WWI Blacklist; enemy property seized by the United States

2513 611.54231 Safehaven; blocking Swiss funds

2526-2527 611.62231 Safehaven; blocking German funds

4632 854.14 Banking in Switzerland; bank secrecy

1960-January 1963 Decimal File

Box # Decimal # Subjects

332-833 200.1141 U.S. war claims, general

333 200.6241 German war claims, general

340-341 211.6241 German assets in the United States

387 248.1141 U.S. assets in, claims against Poland

388 249.1141 U.S. assets in, calims against Czechoslovakia

393-394 251.1141 U.S. assets in, claims against France

398 252.6241 German assets in Spain; the Spanish Accord

399 253.6241 German assets in Portugal; the Portuguese Accord
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401 254.6241 German assets in Switzerland; the liquidation of Swiss

commitments under the Washington Accords

408 261.1141 U.S. assets in, claims against the Soviet Union

409 262.0041 Reparations from germany, IARA, Jewish claims against

Germany

410-411 262.1141 U.S. assets in, claims against Germany

419-420 263.1141 U.S. assets in, claims against Austria

421 264.1141 U.S. assets in, claims against Hungary

426 265.1141 U.S. assets in, claims against Italy

778 398.10 German Debt Commission

11925 611.00231 WWI Blacklist; enemy assets seized by the United States

1261 611.54231 Safehaven; blocking Swiss funds and assets; the Interhandel

case

1271 611.62231 Safehaven; blocking German funds

2952 854.14 Banking in Switzerland; bank secrecy

Subject-Numeric File February 1963-196693

February 1963-December 1963 Subject-Numeric File

Box # File # Subject

Box 341 FN 19 Gold Tripartite Gold Commission

1964-1966 Subject-Numeric File

Box # File # Subject

Boxes 825-826 FN /19 Gold Tripartite Gold Commission

Decentralized Office or “Lot Files”

Records of Under Secretary Dean Acheson

Dean Acheson served as Assistant Secretary of State from 1941 to 1945 and Under Secretary of State from

1945 to 1947. He was a member of various departmental and interdepartmental committees engaged in the

economic aspects of the war effort and in postwar planning.

Records Pertaining to Economic Warfare 1941-44 Boxes 1-5 (Entry 670)

Box # File Title

1 Administration of EO, EA, and EA/C

Argentina

Belgium

EOB Matters-Agenda and Minutes of Meetings (Board of Economic

Operations)

Board of Economic Operations-Organization and functions

Board of Economic Warfare-Administration

Board of Economic Warfare-Clarification and Interpretation of

Executive Order No. 9128

2 Genesis of OEW [Office of Economic Warfare], BEW [Board of

Economic [Warfare], EDB[Economic Defense Board], and FEA

[Foreign Economic Administration].

 

93 Please consult the staff in the consultation area in Room 2600 for the location of the 1963-1966 SubjectNumeric File.
94

Board of Economic Warfare-Minutes of Meetings, beginning 1-1-43

Board of Economic Warfare-Minutes of Meetings of EDB and BEW,

Reports, etc. filed at meetings.

3 Bolivia

Brazil

Caribbean Office

China

China-Freezing of Funds

Combined Boards

Cuba

Dominican Republic

Egypt

Eire

Ethiopia

France and French West and North Africa

Greece

Iberian Peninsula Oil programs

Iceland

Iran

Iraq

Mexico

Middle East Supply Center

4 Other American Republics

Policy and Post-War Programs Committees

Portugal

“Present Status of Economic Warfare Activities and

Recommendations for the Future,” By John E. Russell

Russia

Russia (Since outbreak of Russia-German war)

Spain

5 Sweden

Switzerland

Uruguay

(the remainder of box 5 contains records relating to wartime relief,

postwar rehabilitation, and international monetary stabilization,

1941-1945) location: 250/46/35/04

Records Pertaining to Accounts of Blocked Nationals 1941-1944 (Entry 672)

Box # File Titles

9 Argentina

Bolivia

Jose Dibos Valeavellano

Ericsson Putnam Matter

Honduras

Japan

Mexico

Paraguay

Phillips, N.V

Pirelli do Brasil
95

Policy Committee-Minutes & Agenda

Proclaimed List-Confidential List

Standard-Vacuum Co.

Sterling Products

Sweden

Von Rath case

Wilkie Matter location: 250/46/35/05

Records of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees

The Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees was organized in London in August 1938 as a result of the

Evian Conference of July 1938, which had been called by President Roosevelt to consider the problem of

racial, religious, and political refugees from central Europe. Its main purpose was to assist in the

resettlement of refugees from Europe in countries allowing permanent immigration. At the AngloAmerican conference at Bermuda in April 1943, recommendations were made to the Committee and

adopted in August 1943 for an extension of its mandate and structure in order to take into account not only

immediately urgent situations but also the longer-term problems of the postwar period. After the

establishment of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration the Committee’s

responsibilities were limited to refugees in areas in which that Administration was not active and to

refugees who for one reason or another did not come within the jurisdiction of the Administration, such as

stateless refugees.

In July 1944, 37 governments participated in the work of the Committee. Of these, representatives of nine

countries, including the United States, served on its Executive Committee. The primary responsibility for

determining the policy of the United States with regard to the Committee was that of the Department of

State. It ceased to exist in 1947, and its functions and records were transferred to the International Refugee

Organization of the United Nations. Records of the Washington representative of the Committee were

maintained at the State Department.

Records Relating to the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees [lot file 52D408]

Alphabetical Subject File, 1938-1941

Boxes 1-15 location: 250/49/29/03

Miscellaneous Subject File, 1942-1947

Boxes 1-4 location: 250/49/29/01

Country Files, 1938-1941

Box 7 Contains information on Switzerland. location: 250/49/29/02

Records Relating to the International Refugee Organization (IRO) and the Displaced Persons

Commission (DPC) [lot file 53D307]

Displaced Persons Subject File, 1944-1952

Box 16 contains information pertaining to the restitution of displaced persons, 1946-1947.

location: 250/49/30/06

International Refugee Organization Subject File, 1946-52

Box 21 Folder entitled “IRO [International Refugee Organization] Adherence -

Switzerland” location: 250/49/30/01

Records of the Division of Defense Materials
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The Division of Defense Materials was created in October 1941, to assist other agencies in programs

relating to the procurement, shipping, and supplying of strategic materials for the war effort.

Records Relating to Overall Trade Relations, 1941-1946 (Entry 357)

Box # Country

18 Argentina location: 250/45/35/04

20 Portugal location: 250/45/35/04

20-21 Spain location: 250/45/35/04

21 Sweden location: 250/45/35/04

22 Switzerland location: 250/45/35/04

Miscellaneous Reports and Studies (Entry 359)

Box 25 contains folders with titles “Safehaven,” “Economic Policy toward the Neutrals

and Liberated Areas in Post Hostilities period,” “Blockade Control-Smuggling,” and “Smuggling.”

location: 250/45/35/05

Records of the Office of Intelligence

Division of Research for the American Republics

Country Files 1940-1945 (Entry 451A)

Contains correspondence with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Coordinator of InterAmerican Affairs, Board of Economic Warfare and other agencies, as well, as State Department

records and reports relating to economic warfare, totalitarian activities in certain countries, and

related matters.

Boxes 1-6 location: 250/46/9/03

Miscellaneous Records 1942-1950 (Entry 451B)

Contains State, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs,

Office of Strategic Services, and other agency reports and other records relating to various matters

concerning economic warfare and Axis influences in the Western hemisphere.

Boxes 7-17 location: 250/46/9/03

Boxes 13 and 14 contain Reports prepared by the Special Section of the Division of

American Republics on the activities of Nazi, Communist, Falangist, Spanish Republican, and

other foreign groups in Latin America (5 volumes), 1942-1943, and “Action Taken by the United

States Government to Eliminate Axis Influence from the Other American Republics,” 1942.

Records of the Division of Research for Western Europe

Subject File Relating to Italian Economic Affairs, 1937-1951 (Entry 1452)

(Lot file 52D398)

Box # File Title

1 Italy-External Assets

2 Italy-Assets in U.S.

Italy-External Assets

3 Italy IT-A-451 Reparations 1948-1949

 Rels. with Germany - German Assets

three files “Rome Treasure 1950,” “Rome Treasure 1949,” and “Rome

Treasure 1947-1948.”

403 Reparations
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105 Rome Treasure

German Assets in Italy - 1949

German Assets - General January-June 1950; January-June 1951; JulyDecember 1951; January-June 1952; and, July - December 1952

three files covering German Assets and German Libraries, 1950-1951

Material on Commitment to Italians re German Assets

German Assets and German Libraries 1950 location: 250/49/34/02

Records of the Division of World Trade Intelligence and Its Successor, Division of Economic Security

Controls

On July 17, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a Presidential Proclamation which instructed the

Secretary of State, acting in conjunction with the Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General, the

Secretary of Commerce, the Administrator of Export Controls, and the Coordinator of Commercial and

Cultural Relations between the American Republics, to prepare an appropriate list of persons and firms

working with or for Axis nations and persons to whom exports from the United States were deemed

detrimental to the interests of national defense. As a result of this order the Secretary of State established

on July 21, 1941, the Division of World Trade Intelligence to handle State Department responsibilities

pertaining to the Proclaimed List of Certain Blocked Nationals. The Division was at first under the direct

supervision of Assistant Secretary Dean Acheson but later became part of the Board of Economic

Operations and successor economic offices. On March 1, 1945, it was renamed the Division of Economic

Security Controls and as such became a part of the Office of Economic Security Policy on October 20 of

that year.94

 Records of the Division of War Trade Intelligence

Microfilmed War Trade Intelligence Files, 1941-1946 (Lot 480)

Box 1 (10 rolls of negative 16mm film) location: 631/13/20/03

Records of the Office of Economic Security Policy

The Office of Economic Security Policy was established in October 1945. Its mission was to initiate,

formulate, and coordinate State Department policies and activities aimed at economic security and at

economic aspects of the occupation of Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea. German and Japanese

reparations negotiations were specifically charged to this office in 1946. The office absorbed the Division

of Economic Security Control, the Office of the Advisor on German Economic Affairs, and the Office of

the Advisor on Far Eastern Economic Affairs. The reparations, industrial, and financial responsibilities of

the Division of Financial Affairs and the Division of Foreign Economic Development pertaining to the

prospective peace treaties involving Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea were transferred to this office

when those division were abolished in 1946.

The three units of the Office of Economic Security Policy (the Division of Economic Security Controls, the

Division of German and Austrian Economic Affairs, and the Division of Japanese and Korean Economic

Affairs) were ordered to cooperate in fulfilling the Safehaven program of tracing the flow of enemy assets

into neutral countries. The office administered the Safehaven mission until March 1947.

The Office of Economic Security Policy was abolished in July 1947. Its functions, personnel, and records

were transferred to the Office of Financial and Development Policy.

 

94 For other Division of World Trade Intelligence records see Records of Interdepartmental and

Intradepartmental Committees (State Department) RG 353.
98

Records of the Division of Economic Security Controls

The Division of Economic Security Controls was established in March 1945. It assumed the functions of

the former Division of World Trade Intelligence, such as the responsibility for American controls over

foreign funds and properties mandated by the Proclaimed List of Certain Blocked Nationals (Executive

Order 8389). Among its new responsibilities were development of measures to prevent concealment or

flight of enemy assets and looted property.

The Division of Economic Security Controls was administered by the Office of Financial and

Development Policy until October 1945, when it was placed under the Office of Economic Security Policy.

The Safehaven program, having been completed, the functions and personnel of the division were returned

to the Office of Financial and Development Policy in July 1947, and assigned to the newly-established

Division of Occupied Areas Economic Affairs.

Safehaven Project Files (Lot File 54D374)

Safehaven Country File. 1945-1947. (Entry 369A)

Folders on Afghanistan, Belgium, British Empire, China, Czechoslovakia, Denmark,

Finland, France, Hungary, Iceland, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Liechtenstein,

Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Rumania, Sweden, Switzerland, Tangier,

Turkey, and Soviet Russia. 

Boxes 1-2 location: 250/45/35/07

Safehaven Subject File. 1945-1947 (Entry 369B)

Folders on Assets of Bulgaria, Rumania, Hungary, and Finland in neutral countries; Basic

instructions, policies, and procedures; Bretton Woods--Resolution VI;Claims filed by Swiss firms

with GAO; Currie Mission: negotiations, administrative details, Swiss press reports; German

external assets; German External Property Commission; German repatriates from Turkey; German

scientists and technicians; Gold policy; Insurance; Minutes of meetings of SAFEHAVEN

Committee; Non-repatriables: heirless funds, non-monetary gold; Renegotiation of accord;

Treaties-border questions:and, Washington Accord, 1946 [with the Swiss].

Box 3 location: 250/45/35/07

Records of the Economic Affairs Branch

Negotiations with Switzerland, 1943-57 (Entry 3067)

This series contains records pertaining to U.S. negotiations with the Swiss Government in

the post-World War II period. Subjects include the seizure of German assets in Switzerland and

the wartime attempts by the U.S. Government to have the Swiss company Interhandel divest itself

of the U.S. company General Aniline and Title Corp under the Trading with the Enemy Act.

Boxes 1-17 location: 631/17/38/04

Box # File Titles

1-5 Swiss Accord, January 1947-March 1957

6-7 Interhandel Documents

7-11 Interhandel

11 Swiss Accord, Arbitration Survey File

11-12 Swiss Accord, Maurer File (2 folders)

12 Swiss Accord, Metzger File

Swiss Accord, Negotiation Book (2 folders)
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12-13 Swiss Accord, Special Cases, Val Hogue (2 folders)

13 Swiss Accord, Survey File I; II

Switzerland, APC I (folders 1 and 2)

13-14 Switzerland, APC II (2 folders)

14 Switzerland, APC III (folders 1, 2, and 3)

Switzerland, APC IV

15 Switzerland, claims

Swiss controls

Switzerland, Defrosting, 1943-1946; 1946; 1946-1947, 1947-1956

15-16 Switzerland, Intercustodial Negotiations I; II; III

16 Switzerland, 1949 Negotiations I; II

Background chronology & documents with respect to the Swiss note

of August 9, 1956 concerning arbitration of the Interhandel case

17 Interhandel, FLSA paper drafts

Minutes of the meetings of the Joint Commission, September 1946-

November 1948

Safehaven Special subject folder, Joint Commission, 1946-1947

Subject Files 1947-1961 (Entry 3066)

Box 13 Folder “Tripartite Gold” location: 631/17/38/04

Records of the Office of Financial Operations

Records relating to the Tripartite Commission for the Restitution of Monetary Gold

The Tripartite Gold Commission (TGC) had its origins in the Paris Conference on Reparation of 1945

attneded by the representatives of the Governments of Albania, Australia, Belgium Canada,

Czechsolovakia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Greece, India, Luxembourg, New Zealand, the Netherlands,

Norway, the Union of South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and Yugoslavia. 

An Agreement on Reparation was signed on January 14, 1946. Subsequently, Austria, Italy, and Poland

joined the other countries in adhering to the Paris Agreement for the restitution of monetary gold as set out

in Part III of the Agreement, entitled “Restitution of Monetary Gold.” Basically, this provided that

monetary gold looted by Germany and recovered by the Allied Forces, and monetary gold recovered from

third countries, should be pooled and distributed to claimant countries in proportion to their losses.

The British, French, and United States Governments became responsible for verifing claims and

distributing the gold. On September 27, 1946, the Tripartite Commission for the Resitution of Monetary

Gold was established, and the three governments each appoined a Commission. The three Commissioners

are instructed by, and report to, their respective governments. The Paris Agreement of 1946 does not

impose any formal requirements on the three governments to report back to the signatories of the Paris

Agreement or to the claimant governments. The proceedings of the TGC are considered confidential to the

member governments beause of the sensitivity of the adjudication of completing claims and of

international movements of monetary gold. Information about the TGC has, however, been made public in

Parliamentary debates in Great Britain, in British governmental publications, and in historical works.

The Tripartite Gold Commission’s mandate came from the following agreement:

“Establishment of the Tripartite Commission, September 27, 1946: 1. In order to implement Part III of the

Agreement on Reparation, signed in Paris on January 14th, 1946, the Government of the United States of

America, His Majesty’s Government of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, and the Government of

France have established, on September 27th, 1946, a Commission known as the Tripartite Commission for

the Restitution of Monetary Gold. 2. Each of the three Governments will appoint as from September 27th,

1946, a Commissioner as its representative on the Commission. 3. The Tripartite Commission for the
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Restitution of Monetary Gold shall normally sit in Brussels, but shall be independent of the Inter-Allied

Reparation Agency already located there. The Commission is nevertheless empowered to communicate,

on behalf of the three Governments concerned with the Allied Governments, Members of the Inter-Allied

Reparations Agency, through the Delegates accredited to the Agency by those Governments, with the

Secretariat of the Agency, and, when necessary, with other Governments, on questions arising out of Part

III of the Paris Agreement on Reparation. 4) The official languages of the Tripartite Commission for the

Monetary Gold shall be English and French. 5) The functions of the Tripartite Commission for the

Restitution of Monetary Gold shall be: (a) To request the submission of and to receive from Governments

claiming the right to participate in the division of monetary gold found in Germany or which may be

recovered from a third country to which it was transferred from Germany, claims for restitution of gold

looted by or wrongfully removed to Germany, supported by detailed and verifiable data regarding such

losses. (b) To scrutinize claims received and to determine the share of each claimant Government in the

pool of monetary gold to be distributed by way of restitution in accordance with Part III of the Paris

Agreement on Reparation and any other pertinent agreements. (c) In due course to announce the total value

of the pool of monetary gold which will become available for distribution by way of restitution. (d) When

all claims for restitution have been received and adjudicated upon, to announce the share in the pool of

monetary gold which will become available for restitution to each country entitled to participate in the

pool. (e) In such other ways as shall be decided by the three Governments establishing the Commission, to

assist in the distribution of the pool of monetary gold available for restitution. (f) To perform such

administrative acts as may be necessary to carry out the functions referred to in sub-paragraphs (a) through

(e) above, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the opening and maintaining of bank

accounts, and the making of contracts for the performance of necessary services. Expenses of the

Commission incident to the carrying out of its functions shall be a first charge against the fund of monetary

gold to be distributed. (6) Decisions of the Commission shall be by unanimous agreement of its members.

7. An official publication of the above text is being made in the London Gazette, the State Department

Bulletin, and in the Journal Officiel de la Republique Francaise.

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The TGC was established in Brussels, co-located with the Inter-Allied Reparation Agency (IARA). The

first Commissioners were also the three governments’ Commissioners to the IARA, though the

commission was constitutionally separate from and independent of the IARA. The status of the TGC was

recognized as an international organization as a result of a Belgian law of August 1, 1952, retroactive to

September 27, 1946.

By mid-1948 a considerable quantity of looted monetary gold had been taken into custody by the Allied

authorities, primarily the Americans, or identified as having been deposited in theird countries. By July

1948, a total of about 306,343 kg (kilograms) of gold in bars and coins had been deposited with the

Federal Reserve Bank of New York or the Bank of England or was held at the Foreign Exchange

Depository in Frankfurt by the Office of the Military Government, U.S. By December 1974, the grand

total available for restitution was 336,890kg (about $4.1 billion at today’s prices)

On March 13, 1947, the TGC issued a questionnaire to potential claimant countries seeking information

whcih would allow it to make awards from the gold pool on a proportionate basis. Claims were submitted

by Albania, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, and

Yugoslavia. Their claims totaled about 735,548kg, more than double the amount in the gold pool. The

total claims validated by the TGC came to about 514,060kg.

The TGC decided that since the amount claimed was more than the amount in the gold pool, that the

claimant governments would receive approximately 64% of their claim. The drafting of adjudications of

 

95 Department of State Bulletin, September 29, 1946, p. 563.
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claims began in 1952 and by 1958 10 adjudications96 had been signed by the Commissioners on behalf of

their governments. The eleventh, for Czechsolovakia, was signed in 1982.

The TGC, in October 1947, began making preliminary ditributions of gold. By November 1950, a total of

about 266,210kg of gold (worth about $3.3 billion at today’s prices) was distributed to Austria, Belgium,

Czechoslovakia, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Yugoslavia. The distribution of the share

allocated to Albania was delayed because of a counterclaim by Italy to most of the gold in question. No

preliminary distribution was made to Greece because the amount of the Greek claim was very small. 

Poland did not receive any of the preliminary distribution because, as a lare adherent to the Paris

Agreement, its claim was not made until 1950.

A second, quasi-final distribution took place between 1958 and 1982, when a total of about 58,016kg

(worth about $720 million at today’s prices) was distributed to Austria, Belgium, Greece, Italy,

Luxembourg, Yugoslavia, the Netherlands, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. The distribution to Albania did

not take place until the winter of 1995-1996.

The remaining gold held by the TGC is awaiting final disposition.

Records relating to the Tripartite Commission for the Restitution of Monetary Gold,

1942-1962 (Lot File 62D115)

Boxes 1-29 location: Research Room 2000 Compartment 200 [250/63/26/05]

Box # File Titles

1 91 Tripartite Gold Commission, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951,

1952, 1953

2 91 Tripartite Gold Commission, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1/57-6/57, 7/57-

12/57, 1/58-3/58

3 91 Tripartite Gold Commission, 4/58, 5/58, 6/58, 7/58-9/58, 10/58-

12/58, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962; 91-A Tripartite Gold Commission Terms

of Reference

4 91-B Tripartite Gold Commission Basic Documents

Tripartite Gold Commission Position of Gold Pool

91-C Tripartite Gold Commission Accounts with the Federal Reserve

Bank, Bank of England, and France

5 91-C Accounts Established with Federal Reserve New York with Bank of

England and France 1947-1954

91-M Minutes of Meeting of the Gold Commission 1st-140th

6 Tripartite Gold Commission Distribution of Gold Coins

Czechoslovak Gold Claim 1960

91-S Tripartite Gold Commission Statistics

German Inquiry Regarding “Confiscation of gold” 1960-1961

Czechoslovak Gold Claim 1952-1959

Netherlands Gold Claim January 1959- 

Netherlands Gold Claim June 1958-December 1958; Netherlands Gold

Claim Documents 1947-1951

Greek Gold Claims June 1958

7 Polish Gold Claims June 1958

Portuguese Agreement on German Assets and Gold 1958-1959

Tripartite Gold Commission Draft Report

 

96 Poland received two adjudications; one for pre-war Poland and one for Danzig.
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Tripartite Gold Commission Draft Awards

IARA Reports and Final Liquidation

8 Tripartite Gold Commission

I-E Tripartite Gold Commission Questionnaire97

I-F Tripartite Gold Commission

9 I-I Brussels Meeting

I-J Transmittal Letters Tripartite Gold Commission Intermediate Award

Drafts

I-L Law #53 Gold

I-L(1) Law 53 Gold Finnish non Monetary Gold

I-L(2) Law 53 Gold Gunther Wagner Gold

I-L(3) Two Bars Gold

Tripartite Gold Commission Correspondence re Draft Report

10 Tripartite Gold Commission Background Gold Pot, Polish, Italian and

Australian Participation in Pool

Tripartite Gold Commission

German Embassy Gold in Thailand

11 Tripartite Conference

12 Tripartite Gold Commission Decisions: Background, Austria, Albania,

Danzig (Poland), Greece, Italy, Luxembourg

13 Tripartite Gold Commission Decisions: Poland, Yugoslavia (Preliminary)

Czechoslovakia

I-AG Austrian Gold Claim

I-AG Albanian Gold Claim

14 I-AG(1) Tripartite Gold Commission Final Adjudications Austria

I-AG(2) Austrian Claim-Salzburg Gold

I-AG(3) Austrian Gold Collateral Deposits in the Bank of England

I-AG(4) Austria - Miscellaneous

Belgium Gold Award (Draft)

15 I-AH Belgium Gold Claim

Answer of the Belgian Government to the Questionnaire of the Tripartite

Commission for the Restitution of Monetary Gold (with 8 annexes)

16-17 annexes continue

17 Belgian Gold Claims - Resmelting belgian Gold

I-AI Czechoslovakia Gold Claim

I-AI (1) Final Adjudication - Czechoslovakia

Czech Gold

18 I-A1 Czechoslovakia Claim

France

19 I-O Dolfuss-Meig Claim

I-AJ Greek Gold Claim

I-AJ(1) Data Concerning Greek Gold Claim for Losses Suffered by

Private Persons

 

97 In June 1947, the TGC issued a questionnaire to all members of the IARA, Poland, and Italy, calling for a

statement of wrongful removal of monetary gold and also for a statement of movements, covering losses and

receipts, during the wartime period. The questionnaire also contained a definition of monetary gold agreed for use

by the TGC: “all gold which, at the time of its looting or wrongulf removal, was carried as a part of the claimant

country’s monetary reserve, either in the accounts of the claimant Government itself or in the accounts of the

claimant country’s central bank or other monetary authority at home or abroad.”
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I-A(2) Final Adjudication - Greece

20 I-AK Italian Gold Claim

I-AK Documents on Italian Gold Claim

21 I-AK(1) Itscambi Claim

I-AK(2) Final Adjudications - Italy

I-AK(3) Italy - Fortezza

I-AK(3) Italy Gold

I-AK(4) Italian Peace Treaty Gold

I-AL Luxembourg Gold Claim

I-AL Answers of the Savings Bank of Luxembourg to the Questionnaire

on Gold Claim

22 I-AL(1) Luxembourg Final Adjudications

I-AN Polish Gold Claim

I-AN(1) Poland - Final Adjudications

I-AN(2) Polish - Danzig

I-AO Yugoslav Claim

I-AO(1) Yugoslavia - Final Adjudications

23 I-AM Netherlands Claim I; II; III

I-AM(1) Netherlands Claim Final Adjudication

I-O Private Claims Goldmann Claim

Miscellaneous

24 Conference on German Assets in Portugal 1956

Tripartite Gold Commission 1958 Extra Copies

25 I-U German Gold Holdings

Germany Swedish Accord

Germany Gold Miscellaneous

I-U Germany Gold Holdings

I-X German Gold Holdings Reichsbank Files

I-W German Gold Holdings Reichsbank Files - Resemelting Belgian

Gold

I-AA Mint Records regarding Gold Smeltings - Prussian

I-Y German Gold Holdings Reichsbank Files - French Report

26 I-AB German Gold Holdings Reichsbank Files - Berlin Report on the

Netherlands Gold Vol 1; Vol II

I-AC German Gold Holdings Reichsbank Files

I-AD German Gold Holdings Cables VI(b)

I-AE German Reichsbank Gold in the Pool

27 Economic Relations with Bulgaria

Czechoslovakia - Financial Settlement 1945-1946; 1947-1950

27-28 Economic Relations With Czechoslovakia 1949-1955, 1956-1957, 1958,

1959, 1960

28 Economic Relations With Poland

Economic Relations With Rumania

29 Legation Gold

Soviet Gold Movement (Gold of Spanish Origin)

Spanish Gold Held by USSR

Records of The Legal Adviser

The Legal Adviser, Green H. Hackworth, handled all matters of a legal nature for the Department
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throughout the war.

Records relating to Postwar Settlement Issues, 1939-1963

Includes records relating to the postwar Paris Conference on Reparations, the Inter-Allied

Reparations Agency (IARA), restitution of monetary gold, and defrosting of previously frozen

assets. 

Boxes 1-26 (Lot File 70D516) location: 631/A/03/06

Box # File Titles

1 Paris Conference Preparations

Paris Conference on Reparations Documents; II

Paris Conference on Reparations Minutes 11/10/45-12/45; 12/5/45-

12/21/45

2 Paris Conference Final Report

IARA (Inter Allied Reparations Agency) IA; IB; IC

3-6 IARA ID; IIA; IIB; IIC; IIIA; IIIB; IV; VA; VI; VII; VIII; IX

7-8 IARA X; XI vol 1; XI vol II; XII vol III 1950; XIII vol IV 1950;

XIV vol V 1951; XV vol VI 1951-1952

9-10 IARA XVI 1953-1955; IARA XVII 1956-1959; IARA XVIII 1956

10 IARA Brassert

IARA Committee of Experts

11 IARA Dismantling Unit

Refugee FUND IARA

12 Gold Declaration 1941

Gold General

Gold Netherlands

Gold Pot and Distribution

Gold Protocol

Rumania Gold and Private Loans

Gold Turkey

Looted Gold

Non Monetary Gold

Siamese Gold; Siamese Gold Claim

13 Spanish Gold Loan to Portuguese

IARA Gold I 1945 March 1948; IARA Gold II April-October

1948; IARA Gold III November 1948-October 1949

14 IARA Gold IV November 1949-November 1950; IARA Gold V

April 1950-December 1950; IARA Gold VI January 1950; IARA

Gold VII January 1951-1952

15-18 IARA Gold VII August 1, 1952; IARA Gold VIII 1952; IARA

Gold IX; IARA Gold X 1955-1956; IARA Gold XI 1957; IARA

Gold XII January-May 1958; IARA Gold XIII June-December

1958; IARA Gold XIV January-August 1959; IARA Gold XV

September 1959

18-19 IARA Gold Albano Italy 1945-1951 I; 1952 II; IARA Gold Albano

Italy 1953 III; 1954 IV; 1954-59 V

19 Albanian Gold Claim June 1958

19-20 I-AF Albanian Gold Claim 1945-1950 I; I-AF Albanian Gold

Claim 1951-1952 II

20 I-AF Albanian Gold Claim III Gold Arbitration
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I-AF Albanian Gold Claim 1953 IV

21 I-AF Albanian Gold Case V

Documents Concerning the Monetary Gold of the Bank of Albania

APC (Alien Property Custodian) General 1945-1946

22 APC General 1947-1957

22-23 APC Exec Comm I; II; III

23 APC Judicial Representations

APC Letters Abroad (copies)

APC Litigation

APC Subversive Activities in Latin America

APC Orders

APC Patent License to Government

APC Property Liquidation

APC Property Liquidation pending

APC Patent Policy

24 APC Religious and Charitable Property; APC Repatriates Property;

APC Reports; APC Trip; APC Vestings

Defrosting I 1939-1946; Defrosting I-A Securities 1944-1945

25 Defrosting II February 1947-October 1948; Defrosting III

November 1948-1950

25-26 Defrosting IV Legislation; Defrosting V Legislation; Defrosting VI

1955-

 26 Defrosting VII General License and Rulings

Defrosting VIII 1950

Records Relating to German Assets, 1942-1959 (Lot File 60D139)

Boxes 1-43 location: 250/63/25/01

Box

#

File Title

1 Legislation 82nd Congress, 83rd Congress

Legislation 83rd Congress Correspondence

2 Legislation 84th Congress; Legislation 84th Congress Correspondence

2-3 Legislation 84th Congress Satellite Assets

3 Legislation 85th Congress; Legislation 85th Congress Correspondence

Extension of Time 1949-1954

4 Legislation General 1949-50, 1951

5 Legislation First Decontrol Act of 1947; Legislation 1943-1944;

Legislation Miscellaneous 1945-1946; Legislation

6 Legislation HR 5089 (1946)

Legislation Creditor’s Bill HR 5089, HR 6890 (1946)

Legislation Patents Boykin Act (1946)

7 Legislation Returns (1946); Legislation Claims (1945)

Legislation Trademarks (1943-1946)

Legislation Claims (1942-1947); Legislation Claims (1946)

8 Legislation Gearhart Bills 1944

Legislation Transfer of German and Japanese Assets from Treasury to

APC and Recommendations to Congress

9 Albania APC; Albania Defrosting
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Argentina APC; Argentina Defrosting

Australia APC

Belgium APC; Belgium Claims; Belgium Controls; Belgium

Defrosting though 1945; Belgium Defrosting through 1946; Belgium

Desequestration; Belgium general; Belgium patents

Bolivia APC; Bolivia Controls

Brazil APC; Brazil Controls

Canada APC; Canada Claims

Chile APC

China Claims

Colombia APC; Colombia Trade

Costa Rica Niehaus Case E. Mauer’s APC

10 Czechoslovakia Defrosting

Czechoslovakia Sudeten, Status of

Denmark APC; Denmark Claims; Denmark Defrosting

Egypt Blocking

El Salvador APC

Esthonia APC; Esthonia Defrosting

Finland APC; Finland Claims; Finland Defrosting

11 France APC; France Claims; France Controls 1939-1950; France

Defrosting 9/44-6/45; France Defrosting July-December 1944; France

Defrosting 1948-1950

11-

12

France Claims

12 Greece APC; Greece Defrosting

Guatemala APC

Haiti APC; Haiti Replacement Program 1946-1948

Iraq APC

Ireland APC

Korea APC; Korea Claims; Korea Defrosting

Latvia Defrosting; Latvia APC; Latvia Claims

Lebanon APC; Lebanon Currency

Liechtenstein APC

Lithuania APC; Lithuania Defrosting

Luxembourg APC; Luxembourg Defrosting; Luxembourg Patents

Malaya Defrosting

12-

13

Mexico APC

13 Antitrust Files SYNTAX Mexico SA

Mexican Claims

Netherlands Claims 1946-1947; Netherlands Claims 1948; Netherlands

Claims 1949-1950; Netherlands Claims APC 1950; Netherlands

Claims October 1950; Netherlands Defrosting 1945-1946; Netherlands

Defrosting Loans; Netherlands Defrosting 1947; Netherlands Looted

Securities

14 Netherlands Decrees; Netherlands APC 1946-1949; Netherlands

Looted Securities

Norway APC; Norway Claims; Norway Controls; Norway Defrosting;

Norway Intercustodial; Norway Patents

15 Panama Trade
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Peru APC

Philippines APC

Poland APC; Poland Claims; Poland Defrosting

Portuguese Accord

16 Portuguese Accord Surrey File

Portugal Accord; Portugal Accord Post File

17 Portugal Accord; Portugal Defrosting; Portugal E. Mauer

18 Portugal E. Mauer

Portuguese Accord EMS File

Rumania Claims 1946-1948; Rumania Claims 1948-1950; Rumania

Defrosting

Spain Accord; Spain Accord 1947; Spain Accord 1950-1952; Spain

Accord 1953-1956; Spain Accord 1956; Spain Defrosting

19 Sweden Accord; Sweden Accord 1949-1954; Sweden Accord; Sweden

Accord 1955-1956; Sweden Accord Supplement

Svensk-Amerikanska Tradkompaniet SAB Bergslags Vardin AB

Sweden Defrosting

Swiss Accord Claims

Switzerland Patents

Thai Claims

Turkey Accord

United Kingdom Patents

USSR Committees

Venezuela APC

Yugoslavia Claims

Yugoslavia Defrosting 1945-1947; 1948-1950

20 Austria APC

German Assets in Austria Final Report Oil; (Annexes)

Austrian Contracts; Austria Defrosting

German Assets in Austria Final Report Banks

Austrian Looted Securities

Austria Restitution

21 Austrian Trade

German Assets in Austria Final Report-Insurance

German Assets in Austria Final Report-State Property

German Assets in Austria Final Report-Creditor Claims

German Assets in Austria Final Report DDSG

German Assets in Austria Final Report Industry

22 German Assets in Austria Final Report Industry (Annexes)

Austrian Treaty Commission U.S. Delegation Special Industry Reports

German Assets in Italy; German Assets in Italy 1954; German Assets in

Italy 1955-1956; German Assets in Italy 1957

German Assets in Italy Claims

23 German Assets Claims

23-

24

Germany APC

24 Germany Claims; German Controls 1949-1950

24-

25

German Assets in Latin America

26 Germany Copyrights
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Germany Divesting Law

Germany Immigration

Germany Patents; German Patents June 1946; German Patents 1947-

1948

Accord on German Owned Patents

German Patents

27 German Refugees

German Restitution 2/50-4/50; 5/50-8/50; 9/50-10/50; 10/50-12-50

28 German Rolling Stock 11/46-11/47; 1/48-12/48; 1/49-3/50; 4/50

Germany Trade

Germany Trademarks 1946; 1947; 1948-8/50; 9/50-1955

29 German Treaty

German Validation Ordinance

German Assets in Austria 1946; 1948; 1948-1950

German External Assets

30 German Assets in Hungary

German Assets in Italy 1946-7/48; 1/49-7/49; 8/49-12/49

Intercustodial Agreement US-UK-Canada I; II; III

Intercustodial Documents I; II

31 Intercustodial Preparations I; II; III; IV; V

32 Intercustodial Problems I; II; III

Intercustodial Meetings I; II; III

32-

33

Intercustodial ARA Assembly

33 Maurer Intercustodial I; II Drafts

34-

35

Maurer Intercustodial III; IV; V; VI; VII; (no VIII was located); IX; X;

XI; XII; XIII; XIV; XV; XVI

36 Simsarian Intercustodial I: II: III: IV: V: VI: VII: VIII: (no IX was

located) X

Surrey Intercustodial I

M H Cardozo Intercustodial

Intercustodial I January 1947

37-

39

Intercustodial I; Intercustodial II 1947; III 1947; IV December 1947; I

1948; II 1948; I 1949; II 1949; III 1949; I 1950; II 1950; I 1951; July

1951

39 Intercustodial Current

Reichsmark I Mr. Maurer; Reichsmark II Mr. Maurer; Reichsmark III

Mr. Maurer

40-

42

Reichsmark IV (V and VI were not located); VII; (VIII and IX were not

located); X; XI; XII; XIII; XIV; XV; XVI; XVII

42 Cover Accounts Vol I A-K; Cover Accounts Vol II L-Z

U.S. Issued Securities-Certificates in Holland as Claimed by the U.S.

Subject Files of the Assistant Legal Adviser for European Affairs relating to Germany and Austria,

1945-1960 (Entry 1313)(lot File 59D609)

Germany

Box # File Title or Subject

4 Claims files 1953-1958 location: 250/49/18/01

10 Restitution - Internal 1958 location: 250/49/18/02
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Austria

Box # File Title

20 Claims - Property Claims of U.S. Citizens

Claims Settlement Agreement location: 250/49/18/03

General Records of the Assistant Legal Adviser for German Affairs relating to Germany and

Austria 1946-1956 (Entry ) (Lot File 57D54)

Austria

Box 30 Whole box on Austrian Looted Securities location: 250/49/18/05

Records of the Special Interrogation Mission to Germany, 1945-1946

In 1945, the Department of State sent a mission to Germany to interrogate former German government

officials regarding German foreign relations, propaganda, the Nazi Party, and other subjects for the period

1939-1945. The mission, headed by DeWitt C. Poole, functioned from August 1945 to January 1946. Its

purpose was to acquire political information from participants in the Nazi regime; to fill in gaps in the

Department’s knowledge of Nazi foreign policy and of Nazi activities abroad; reveal certain aspects of the

operation of the Nazi administrative machine; and fix personal responsibility for major decisions and

policies in the Third Recih.

Interrogations of Former High-Level Nazi Diplomatic and Military Officers

1945-1946 (Entry 1082) 

The records are arranged alphabetically by surname. Reports on the Interrogations of

Former German Government Officials. Each report includes biographical information of the

person interrogated, the date, place and language(s) of the interrogation; the interrogator(s); the

method of recording the interrogation; and related pertinent materials concerning the subject of the

interrogation and the person being interrogated. Most of the first three boxes of this material have

been microfilmed as NARA Microfilm Publication M679, 3 rolls. The fourth box consists of

material transferred to the National Archives in 1980. Although some of the folders have the same

surname title as in boxes 1-3, the material is complementary and does not contain duplications. 

Boxes 1-4 location: 250/48/30/03

Roll # Person Interrogated98 Microfilmed Pages

1 Backe, Herbert 12

Blaskowitz, Johannes 4

Blomberg, Werner von99 14

Boettichler, Friedrich von 9

Bohle, Ernst Wilhem 120

Borchers, Hans 9

Bormann, Martin100 see note

Brandt, Karl 1

Brauchitsch, Walter Heinrich

von

7

Busch, Walter 6

 

98 Names without the number of pages indicates that the interrogation records is contained in the boxes but

was not microfilmed. The interrogations in Box 4 are indicated as Box 4.

99 Field Marshal, former Reich War Minister and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.

100 Head of the Party Chancellery and private secretary to Hitler.
110

C (Herwarth) 19

Daluege, Kurt 5

Darre, Walter101 16

Dieckhoff, Hans Heinrich 18

Dirksen, Herbert von 144

Doenitz, Karl von102 8

Eberstein, Karl von 25

Epp, Franz Ritter von 4

Feldtauge, Hanna 5

Frank, Hans103 35

Frank, Karl Hermann104 2

Frick, Wilhelm 19

Funk, Walter 2

Gienanth, Ulrich von 9

Goering, Hermann 179

Gottfriedsen, Bernd 13

Guderian, Heinz105 7

Haushofer, Karl 15

Roll #

2 Hencke, Andor 159

Hepp, Ernst Adolf 11

Herwarth, Hans Heinrich 75

Hess, Rudolf106 7

Hessen, Philip von Prinz 3

Hewel, Walter 1

Hilger, Gustav 4

Horthy, Nicholaus107 9

Hoyningen-Huene, Oswald 8

Jodl, Alfred108 9

Kaltenbrunner, Ernst109 3

Keitel, Wilhelm110 11

 

101 Reich Minister for Food and Agriculture and Reich Peasant Leader.

102 Grand Admiral who Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy after 1943 and subsequently Hitler’s

designated successor.

103 Governor-General of Poland during World War II, beginning in October 1939. He confiscated Polish

property and expropriated polish-owned art for his own use..

104 Minister of State and virtual ruler of the Czech “Protectorate.”

105 German General promoted to Chief of the General Staff of the OKW (Army High Command) on July

21, 1944. He was dismissed by Hitler on March 21, 1945.

106 Deputy Leader of the Nazi Party and after Goering the No. 3 man in Nazi Germany until May 10, 1941,

he left Germany for Great Britain..

107 Miklos De Nagybanya de Horthy, Hungarian Admiral and Regent of Hungary during most of World

War II. He brought Hungary into the Axis alliance, but when began negotiating with the Allies in 1944 for an

armistice, Hitler forced him to resign as regent.

108 Chief of the Operations Staff of the High Command of the Armed Forces (OKW) from 1939 to 1945.

109 Austrian Nazi who, in early 1943, became Reich Central Security Officer, and in February 1944, he was

appointed head of the Abwehr.

110 Field Marshal, Chief of the Wehrmacht High Command OKW.
111

Keppler, Wilhelm111 27

Klee, Eugen 7

Kleeberg, Gerhard Johannes Georg 5

Koecher, Otto 8

Koerner, Paul 2

Kolbe, Fritz 8

Kordt, Erich 27

Kritzinger, Friedrich Wilhelm 1

Kuehlmann, Richard von 5

Lahousen, Erwin 9

Lammers, Hans Heinrich112 32

Ley, Robert113 17

Loesch, Karl Heinrich von 21

Meissner, Otto 90

Mentizinger, Joseph Hermann F. 7

Nagel, Jacob114 3

Heubacher, Hermann 36

Neurath, Constantin von115 11

Roll #

3 Niebuhr, Dietrich 16

Ohnesorge, Wilhelm 1

Paeffgen, Theodor 9

Papen Franz von 100

Prittwitz, Friedrich Wilhelm von 4

Rekowski, Carl Berthold Franz 7

Reinecke, Hermann see note

Ribbentrop, Joachim von 32

Riecke, Hans J see note

Ritter, Karl 8

Rosenberg, Alfred116 see note

Sauckel, F see note

Schacht, Horace Greely Hjalmer 7

Schmidt, Paul Otto Gustav 96

Schirach, Baldur von117 see note

Scholz, Gerda118 37

Schwarz, Franz Xaver 5

Schwerin Kosigk von see note

 

111 State Secretary and economic specialist in the Foreign Office.

112 Chief of the Reich Chancellory.

113 Leader of the German Labor Front.

114 State Secretary in the Reich Post Ministry.

115 Served as Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia from March 18, 1938, until August 25, 1943.

116 From 1938 to 1945 he was head of the Party Foreign Affairs Department. On July 17, 1941 he was

appointed to serve also as Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories. His “Rosenberg Task Force” (Einsatzstab

Reichsleiter Rosenberg) began in October 1940 to confiscate the great art treasures of occupied Europe.

117 Nazi Youth Leader from 1933 until July 1941 when he was sent to Vienna to serve as district leader for

the Nazi Party.

118 Deals with Dr. Franz Alfred Six, RSHA Amt VII.
112

Seldte, Franz see note

Seyss-Inquart, Arthur119 see note

Six, Franz Alfred and Mahnke,

Horst

179

Speer, Albert120 see note

Steengracht, Moyland von 16

Steinhaeuser, Conrad 3

Strempel, Heribert von see note

Streicher, Julius

Stroelin, Karl 22

Stukant, Wilhelm see note

Tannenberg, Wilhelm Ernst

August

7

Tannenberg, Wilhelm Ernst

August

Box 4

Thomas, George121 11

Thomas, George Box 4

Thomsen, Hans 8

Thomsen, Hans Box 4

Tuetzechler, Heinz von Falkenstein 26

Tuetzechler, Heinz von Falkenstein Box 4

Twardowski, Fritz Ernst 3

Veesenmayer, Edmund122 30

Veesenmayer, Edmund Box 4

Warlimont, Walter 48

Warlimont, Walter Box 4

Records of the Pauley Reparations Missions, 1945-1948 (Lot File M-17 & M-18)

On April 27, 1945, President Harry S Truman designated Presidential Special Assistant Edwin W. Pauley

as his personal representative, with the rank of ambassador, to head the U.S. delegation to the Allied

Reparations Commission considering German reparations. At the Crimea Conference the major powers

had agreed that Germany would be “obliged to the greatest extent possible to make reparations.” After

negotiating the formula and methods for exacting reparations, Pauley led the U.S. Reparations Mission to

Japan in late 1945 and a third mission concerning Japanese assets in Soviet occupied Korea and Manchuria

in 1946. On March 7, 1947, Pauley transferred to the Department of State and was designated Special

Advisor to the Secretary of State on Reparations.

General Records 1945-1948 (Entry 1106A)

Boxes 1-9 location: 250/48/32/03

European Mission Subject Files 1945-1947 (Entry 1106B) 

Boxes 10-20 location: 250/48/32/04

 

119 Served as Deputy Governor-General of Poland, Reich Governor of Austria, and Reich Commissioner of

the German-occupied Netherlands from 1940 to 1945.

120 Reich Minister for Armaments and War Production from 1942 to 1945.

121 Former chief of the Wehrwirtschaftsamt of the OKW.

122 Former German Minister to Hungary.
113

Records of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of State for Occupied Areas, 1946-1949

(Entries 505D and 505E) (Lot File 55D370)

Commissioned in February 1946, the Assistant Secretary of State for Occupied Areas was directly

responsible to the Secretary of State for the coordination of State Department policy on all occupation

matters. The Assistant Secretary was the State Department representative on the State-War-Navy

Coordinating Committee and later was named permanent committee chairman. The Assistant Secretary

submitted matters of concern to the appropriate bureaus for action and was the means by which all policy

matters relating to occupied areas were presented to agencies outside the Department.

The major concerns of the Assistant Secretary were the occupation and governments of the four occupied

countries (Germany, Austria, Japan, Korea), issues such as disarmament and security, economic and

financial questions, and, with the aid of an Advisor on Refugees and Displaced Persons, relief and

relocation of the victims of the war.

Box # File Title

2 Reparations location: 250/46/27/04

5 230.365 Reparations, economy, finance; location: 250/46/27/05

6 334 German Assets, Reparations Vol. 1

386.3 Reparations, German , Vol. 3 location: 250/46/27/05

7 451.1 Restitution: Austria to Italy location: 250/46/27/05

Records of the Bureau of European Affairs

Records of Component Parts of the Bureau of European Affairs 1944-1962

Briefing Books, 1944-1951 (Entry 1601) (Lot File 54D394)

Box 3 “German Assets in Austria, 1947--Report by U.S. Delegation, Austrian

Treaty Commission; location: 250/63/08/07

Records of the Office of European Regional Affairs

Records Relating to the Inter-Allied Reparations Agency, 1948-1956

(Lot File 60D500)(still part of Entry 1601)

Box # File Title

36 German External Assets (GEA)--General

Germany, Ireland, Japan, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey,

United States

History of the German Reparation Program, 1949-

Countries--General

Czechoslovakia

Greece

India

Satellites--General

United Kingdom

USSR

German Patents

Annual Report

Reparations Accounts (Treasury)

Chron File, US Delegation

Reparation Summaries, Status Reports, 1948-1949
114

Claims for Reparations

Accounting Problems

Final Report, 1951

Administration, 1956

Documents

36-37 Minutes 70-265

37-38 Documents 260-1601, Parts I-III; Documents 160-1601, Parts IV-V

location: 250/63/8/06

Records of the Office of European Affairs, 1935-1947 (Matthews-Hickerson Files)

Records of H. Freeman Matthews 1942-1947 and John D. Hickerson 1935-1947. 

Matthews was Chief of the Division of European Affairs, 1943-44; Deputy Director of the Office

of European Affairs, 1944; and Director of the Office of European Affairs, 1944-1947. Hickerson

was Assistant Chief of the Division of European Affairs, 1937-1944, and Deputy Director of the

Office of European Affairs, 1944-1947 (Lot Files 54 D394 and 395) National Archives Microfilm

Publication M1244: (Entries 374-380)

Files of John Hickerson

Roll 7 File “Reparation paper - Edwin W. Pauley”

Files of H. Freeman Matthews

Roll 11 File “Argentina”

Roll 14a File “Germany - Reparations”

Roll 18 Files “Portugal,” “Spain,” “Switzerland”

Miscellaneous Office Files of the Assistant Secretaries of State for European Affairs,

1943-1957 (Entry 1274)(Lot File 59D233)

Box # File Title or Subject

26 German Assets [1954-1956] (two files)

27-28 Country files on Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland [1948-1955]

location: 250/49/16/01

Records of the Office of British Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs,

1941-1953 (Entry 1172) (Lot Files 54D224 and 59D559)

Country Files

Box # File Title

13 Germany- “Assets in Switzerland” location: 250/49/3/04

14 Germany- “Reparations and Restitution” location: 250/49/3/04

19 Sweden-“Looted Gold” location 250/49/3/05

Records of the Office of Western European Affairs

Records of the Office of Western European Affairs Relating to Italy, 1943-1951

(lot File 54D328) (Entry 381)

Box # File Title

1 Agreements, Pacts, and Treaties location: 250/46/2/02

2 Economic Matters, including Proclaimed List Vesting by Alien

Property Custodian and Gold; location: 250/46/2/02
115

4 Italian-Great Britain Reparation

German Libraries-Background

Negotiations-Disposition of German Libraries in Italy

location: 250/46/2/03

6 313 German Assets

315 Looted Property [1950] location: 250/46/2/03

7 313 German Assets

315 Looted Property [1951] location: 250/46/2/03

8 522 Reparations [1950]

522 Reparations [1951] location: 250/46/2/03

Records of the Officer in Charge of Italian and Austrian Affairs

Subject Files Relating to Italian Affairs, 1944-1956 (Entry 1285) (Lot File 58D357)

Box # File # and Title

12 519 Reparations 1952-1953 location: 250/49/15/06

13 522 Reparations.1953 location: 250/49/15/06

16 520.02 Albanian Gold 1954 location: 250/49/15/07

17 514 German Assets 1954 location: 250/49/15/07

18 520 Looted Property 1954 location: 250/49/15/07

Subject Files on Austria 1945-1950 (Entry 1174A) (Lot File 54D331)

Alpha-Numeric File

Box # File # and Title

3 A-50 Reparations [1945]

4 A-711 Reparations [1946]

6-7 A-400 External Assets, German Assets, Gold Pot [1948];

[1949] location: 250/49/4/01

Austrian Desk Files, 1950-1954 (Entry 1174B) (Lot File 56D294)

Alpha-Numeric File

Box # File # and Title

9 A581- German Assets in Austria [1953-1954];

A584- Looted Securities [1953-1954] location:

250/49/4/06

Records of the Office of Italian and Austrian Affairs, 1949-1953 (Entry 1174C)

(Lot File 54D541)

Austria Alpha-Numeric File

Box # File # and Title

4 File A-400 External Assets, German Assets, Gold

Pot[1950] location: 250/49/4/01

Austria Numeric File

Box # File # and Title

8 File 585 External Restitution (Individual and Program)

8 File 586 Internal Restitution location: 250/49/4/02

Italy Decimal File
116

Box # File # and Title

9 File 315 Looted Property location: 250/49/4/03

Decimal Files Related to Italy and Austria, 1953-1958 (Entry 3092)

Box # File # and File Title or Subject

1-2 Alien property claims related toAustria, 1957-1958 location:

250/62/32/01

3 514 Italy, German Assets 1957 location: 250/62/32/01

Records of the Officer in Charge of Italian and Austrian Affairs (Entry 1282)

(Lot File 58D71)

Subject Files Relating to Italy, 1953-1956

Box # File # and Title

6 514 German Assets in Italy

514 German Assets in Italy-Correspondence

514 German Assets in Italy- IARA - Third Countries

514 German Assets - American War Damage Claims 1955

519 Reparations

520.02 Albanian gold (Monetary Gold) location: 250/49/15/05

Records of the Officer in Charge of Italian and Austrian Affairs

Subject Files Relating to Austrian Affairs, 1954-1956 (Entry 1283)

(Lot File 58D72)

Box # File # and Title

7 320 German Assets in Austria

391 Looted Property & Art location: 250/49/15/06

Subject Files Relating to the Austrian Occupation and Peace Treaty 1949-1955

(Entry 1284) (Lot File 58D223)

Box # File # and Title

8 412 German Assets in Austria

585 External Restitution

586 Internal Restitution

586 Austrian Reparations to Israel July-Dec.1953 location:

250/49/15/06

Subject Files Relating to Italian Affairs, 1944-1956

(Entry 1285) (Lot File 58D357)

Box # File # and Title

12 519 Reparations 1952-1953 location: 250/49/15/06

14 522 Reparations 1953 location: 250/49/15/07

16 520.02 Albanian Gold 1954 location: 250/49/15/07

17 514 German Assets (Minutes) 1954; location: 250/49/15/07

18 520 Looted Property 1954 location: 250/49/15/07

19 520.01 Salzburg gold 1954 location: 250/49/15/07

Records of the Office of Western European Affairs

Records of the Spanish and Portuguese Desk Officers 1942-1955 (Entry 1400)

(Lot Files 59D108)
117

Box # File Title

3 1954, German Assets, Portugal location: 250/49/28/04

7 1956 German Assets location: 250/49/28/05

9 1957 German Assets in Spain location: 250/49/28/05

Alpha-Numeric Files of the Swiss-Benelux Desk, 1951-1962 (Entry 3091)

Box # File # and File Title

11 N.19.8 Dutch gold pool claims location: 250/62/31/06

14-15 contain numerous files on the Interhandel case, relating to

Switzerland, 1953-193; location: 250/62/31/07

15 S.6C.3 Return of German assets, 1957-1961

S.7.2A Swiss banking secrecy problems, 1956-1959

S.10.2 Claims and trials location: 250/62/31/07

Miscellaneous German Files, 1943-1954 (Entry 1174E)(Lot File 55D371)

Subject File

Box # File Title

6 Reparations

Restitution - German Internal location:

250/49/4/04

Records of the Office of German Affairs

Alpha-Numeric Files Relating to the Federal Republic of Germany, 1960-1962

(Entry 3090)

Boxes 5-12 contain information on German assets in the United States and Vested 

Assets in the United States 1949-1961 location: 250/62/31/03

Records of the Office of Eastern European Affairs

Records Relating to Economic Affairs, 1943-1963 (Entry 3087)

Box # File Title

1 Claims and Blocked Assets, Bulgaria, Hungary, Russia

Gold and foreign exchange reserves

Poland claims, 1957 and before. location: 250/62/30/07

2 Poland claims 1958-1961

US Polish claims negotiations, 1960 location: 250/62/31/01

Miscellaneous Office Files, 1952-1960 (Entry 1276) (Lot File 76D232)

Box 41 contains information on Tripartite Gold Commission (1958), Polish

Claims; location 250/49/16/03

Records Relating to Czechoslovakia 1958-1963 (Entry 3082)

Box 1 File C-400.2 Tripartite Gold Commission location: 250/62/30/05

Records of the Eastern European Division (Czechoslovakia), 1946-1950

(Entry 1173A) (Lot File 54D426)

Box # File # and Title

2 C-400 Restitution [1948]

3 C-400 Restitution [1949] location: 250/49/3/06
118

Records of the Central European Division, 1944-1953 (Entries 381A,B,C)

These records were maintained by the Division of Central European Affairs formed in

January 1944, to handle U.S. relations with Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. As part of the

Office of European Affairs, this Division consisted of a German Branch and an AustrianCzechoslovakian Branch. The mission of the Division was to direct the daily conduct of relations

with these countries. In order to fulfil this assignment, the Division evaluated information from

various sources, prepared studies, tried to anticipate major problems, coordinated U.S. policy with

other agencies, and worked with Allied and Occupation authorities.

The bulk of the records were created between 1944 and 1949, and deals primarily with the

occupation of Germany, the problems of Austria, inter-Allied relations, economic and financial

questions, legal and political affairs, and reparations. Included are files on external assets,

reparations, restitution, restitution claims, and claims against Germany.

Boxes 1-5 location 250/46/2/04

Records of the Office of American Republic Affairs, Its Predecessors, andIts Successors

A Division of Latin American Affairs was created in 1909. In 1937 the name was changed to the Division

of American Republics. At the same time, the Division of Mexican Affairs was incorporated into the

Division of American Republics. In 1944 the Division became the Office of American Republic Affairs. 

In 1950 the Office of American Republic Affairs became the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs.

Memorandums Relating to Individual Countries, Mar. 2, 1918-Dec. 31, 1947 (Entry 209)

Boxes 17-20 Argentina Jan. 1937-December 1947 location: 250/44/7/01

Miscellaneous Memorandums Jan 4, 1938-Sept. 12, 1947 (Entry 214)

Box 65 File Proclaimed List, Aug. 1941-Dec. 1941 location: 250/44/7/07

 Records of the Office of Middle American Affairs (Guatemala and El Salvador) 1942-1954

(Entry 1146) (Lot Files 58D78 and 58D18)

Box 2 File Guatemala, German Assets, 1954 location: 250/49/1/04

Records of the Office of Middle American Affairs (Costa Rica and Nicaragua) 1951-1955 (Entry

1147) (Lot File 57D15)

Box 4 File [Costa Rica 1954] German Assets

Box 6 File [Costa Rica 1955] Finance-German Assets location: 250/49/01/04

Office of Central American and Panamanian Affairs

Records Relating to Guatemala (Entry 1156) (Lot File 60D647)

Subject File

Box 5 File German Assets [1958] location: 250/49/2/02

Records Relating to the “Argentine Blue Book,” 1945-1946

The Department of State on October 3, 1945, initiated consultation among the American

republics concerning the collaboration of Argentina with enemy agents for espionage and other

activities damaging to the war effort of the Allies. From October 1945 to February 1946, there

was assembled and evaluated under the direction of Carl B. Spaeth, Office of American Republic

Affairs, all information in the possession of the U.S. Government bearing on relations of

Argentina with Germany and Italy. The results of the investigation, obtained from records of the
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U.S. Government, those of Germany and Italy, and from interrogations of Germany and Italian

officials responsible for activities in and with respect to Argentina were set forth in a

memorandum, Consultation Among the American Republics With Respect to the Argentine

Situation, commonly known as the “Argentine Blue Book” because of the color of its cover.

“Argentine Blue Book.” 1946 (Entry 1083)

A printed copy of the “Argentine Blue Book” and typed copies of the index.

Box 1 location: 250/48/30/04

Drafts and Documentary Material for the “Argentine Blue Book.” 1945-1946

(Entry 1084)

Arranged according to the book’s table of contents. Contains drafts of parts of the book

and copies of documentary material used in its preparation. Included are copies of diplomatic and

consular reports, telegrams, reports of the State Department’s Special Interrogation Mission to

Germany, and printed and processed materials.

Boxes 1(part)-7 location: 250/48/30/04

Despatches From U.S. Embassies 1945-1946 (Entry 1085)

Arranged alphabetically by name of country and thereunder chronologically. Despatches

from U.S. embassies in Latin America and Europe regarding significant trends in political affairs

and international relations in Latin America, local comment on the situation in Argentine, editorial

comments on affairs in Argentina and U.S. action concerning them, and other matters of interest to

those charged with preparing the “Argentine Blue Book.”

Boxes 8-15 location: 250/48/30/05

Telegrams From U.S. Embassies 1945-1946 (Entry 1086)

Arranged alphabetically by name of country and thereunder chronologically. Telegrams

from U.S. Embassies in Latin America and Europe dealing with the procurement of material for

the “Argentine Blue Book,” editorial and other comments in foreign countries regarding the

Argentine situation and the release of the “Argentine Blue Book,” political and other international

developments, and matters of interest to those charged with preparing the “Argentine Blue Book.”

Boxes 16-20 location: 250/48/30/06

Interrogation Reports of the Poole Mission on the Argentine Situation 1945-1946

(Entry 1087)

Arranged alphabetically by name of person interrogated. Copies of the reports of the

Special Interrogation Mission to Germany headed by DeWitt C. Poole, on its interrogations of

German diplomatic, consular, military, and other officials regarding German activities in

diplomacy, propaganda, and espionage.

Boxes 21-22 location: 250/48/30/07

Miscellaneous Affidavits and Interrogation Reports 1945-1946 (Entry 1088)

Arranged alphabetically by name of informant. Reports of interrogation of German

diplomatic and consular officers and some affidavits of officers regarding their activities during the

war.

Boxes 23-26 location: 250/48/30/07
120

Reports on Examination of Enemy Embassy Archives in Argentina 1945 (Entry 1089)

Arranged under Germany or Japan and thereunder chronologically. Reports of U.S.

representatives in Argentina regarding their examination of the archives of the German and

Japanese embassies in that country.

Box 27 location: 250/48/31/01

Miscellaneous Reports and Background Material 1945-1946 (Entry 1090)

Arranged in part randomly by agency transmitting the records, in part randomly by

subject, and thereunder chronologicaly. Reports of the War, Navy, and Justice Departments;

copies of Argentine public statements; and biographical sketches, chiefly of Argentine officials.

Boxes 28-29(part) location: 250/48/31/01

Memorandums on the Preparation of the “Argentine Blue Book” 1945-1946 (Entry1091)

Arranged chronologically. Memorandums of the Department of State regarding the

procurement of material, the assignment of duties to personnel, the organization of the project, and

other matters related to the preparation of the “Argentine Blue Book.”

Box 29(part) location: 250/48/31/01

Exhibits and Appendixes 1945-1946 (Entry 1092)

Arranged numerically, 1-7. Copies of memorandums, reports, and miscellaneous

materials compiled in support of the U.S. position in the “Argentine Blue Book.”

Box 30 location: 250/48/31/01

Records Relating to Reaction to the “Argentine Blue Book” 1946 (Entry 1093)

Arranged alphabetically by name of country of origin of the reaction. Various records

relating to the reaction of the publication, including domestic and foreign press and official

reactions from other American republics.

Boxes 31-32 location: 250/48/31/01

Miscellaneous Records 1944-1946 (Entry 1094)

Arranged randomly by subject or kind of record. Copies of memorandums, affidavits,

telegrams, press releases, and other materials relating to preparation and publication of the

“Argentine Blue Book.”

Box 33 location: 250/48/31/01

Records of the Foreign Service Posts of the Department of State (RG 84)

From 1939 to 1941 the regular duties of the diplomatic and consular establishments (including political

and economic reporting and commercial and administrative activities) did not change to any appreciable

extent, although their work was increased by certain duties under the Neutrality Act of 1939. A

tremendous increase in their workload took place, however, after the passage of the Lend-Lease Act of

March 11, 1941, the establishment of the “Proclaimed List of Certain Blocked Nationals” on July 17,

1941, and the growth of the foreign staffs of the economic agencies of the Government. After 1941 the

Foreign Service was called upon to participate in the operation of the lend-lease program, the procurement

of strategic materials abroad, the study of import requirements of nations receiving controlled exports from

the United States, the distribution of information abroad, the promotion of the cultural relations program,

and the promotion of Allied solidarity and the proposed organization of the United Nations.
121

Many of the dealings of the American Missions in Argentina, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and

Turkey had to do with the concept of neutrality. In international law at the time, neutrality referred to the

status of a state during an ongoing war between other states, whereby the neutral country adopts an attitude

of impartiality toward the belligerents, thereby creating rights and duties under international law between

the neutral state and the belligerents. 

Under the traditional law of neutrality, a neutral state was obliged to treat the belligerents with strict

neutrality. This meant abstaining from providing them with military support and preventing them form

engaging in military activities on its territory.123

Thus, dealing with the neutrals and the concept of neutrality was a difficult task for American diplomatic

personnel. As one historian observed, the United States had “to convince the neutrals that international

law is dynamic, capable of growth and expansion as the world over which it operates shifts and changes. 

The United States had, moreover, to harmonize its views with those held by the British Government, since

mutual action was an imperative for effective conduct of business with the neutrals.”124

The Foreign Service also played a key role in the Safehaven Program. A month after the adoption of

Bretton Woods Resolution VI, the Secretary of State sent on August 29, 1944, a circular airgram to the

United States diplomatic representatives in Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and Turkey

notifying them that the Departments of State and Treasury and the Foreign Economic Administration were

studying the problem of looted assets and similar questions. The Secretary of State informed them that he

desired to be kept informed concerning “enemy investments, and enemy plans, as well as operations under

such plans, to seek safe haven in neutral and other countries for assets and military and industrial potential

in frustration of anticipated Allied controls following the cessation of hostilities.”125 A similar message

was sent on December 6, 1944, to the diplomatic representatives in the American Republics. Detailed

reporting instructions were included as to the kind of information desired by the State Department 126 On

January 16, 1945, the Secretary of State notified all the diplomatic and consular officers except those in the

American Republics of the importance of the “SAFEHAVEN project” and the desire to gather information

“regarding suspect persons, entities, and transactions.” The Foreign Service personnel were informed that

“reporting current SAFEHAVEN information should be given a very high priority.” They were instructed

to prepare a register of all known enemy assets, including making a distinction between looted assets and

other enemy held assets. They were also requested to report on individuals and their activities. “You

should not hesitate,” they were instructed to, “report unconfirmed rumors or attempts by the enemy to

transfer his assets to places of safekeeping abroad in anticipation of impending defeat or of the movements

of enemy persons seeking refuge for similar reasons.”127

Among the records of the Foreign Service posts and in the State Department Decimal File are found the

fruits of the labor based upon the above instructions.

Most of the records filed at Foreign Service posts are arranged by post, thereunder by year, and thereunder

by a Department of State foreign service post decimal classification scheme, and they often duplicate the

records filed in the Central File of the State Department.

 

123 A useful source on neutrality is Boleslaw A. Boczek, “Introduction: The Conceptual and Legal

Framework of Neutrality and Nonalignment in Europe” in S. Victor Papacosma and mark R. Rubin, eds., Europe’s

Neutral and Nonaligned States: Between NATO and the Warsaw Pact (Wilmington, Delaware: SR Books, 1989),

pp. 1-42

124 Clarke, “Safehaven Study,” pp. 128-129.

125 Foreign Relations of the United States, 1944, Volume II, p. 220.

126 ibid. pp. 243-247.

127 Foreign Relations of the United States, 1945, Volume II, pp. 852-859.
122

For the 1910-1948 period listed below are some decimal numbers that may be useful to researchers:

350 Property rights (as against the Government)

500 International congresses and conferences. International treaties.

711 War, Peace, Friendship, Alliance

711.1 Neutrality. Duties of neutrals.

711.2 Neutral commerce. Contraband of war. Blockade.

711.3 Enemy Property. Trading with Enemy.

820 Military Affairs.

830 Naval Affairs.

851 Financial conditions.

851.6 Banks. Banking.

On January 1, 1949 a new decimal filing system was developed. Below are some pertinent file numbers:

300 Political and governmental affairs-General.

310 International conferences and organizations.

320 international political relations.

500 Economic matters.

510 Trade relations.

Copies of the two file manuals (1910-1948 and 1949- ) are located in the consultation area in Room 2600

and may be used by researchers to assist them in identifying specific file numbers.

Argentina

Argentina pursued a neutral policy after the United States entered the war in December 1941. United

States-Argentine relations hit a low point in July 1944, when the American Ambassador was recalled. In

August 1944 the United States Government began an economic pressure campaign through the blocking of

Argentine gold deposits in the United States. Argentina formally declared war on the Axis powers on

March 27, 1945.

Records of the U.S. Embassy, Buenos Aires, Argentina

General Records 1936-1952 (Entry 2023)

Boxes 1-232 location: 350/48/15/05

Classified General Records (Confidential File) 1936-1952 (Entry 2024)

Boxes 1-147 location: 350/48/20/03

Top Secret File 1949 (Entry 2025)

Box 1 location 350/48/23/03

Austria

Austria was incorporated into the Third Reich in March 1938. After the war an Allied Control Council

was established for Austria. On December 15, 1945, the Allies recognized a new Austrian Government. 

On June 28, 1946, new control machinery was established for Austria by the Allies.128 Austria regained its

independence on May 15, 1955.

Records of the U.S. Legation/Consul, Vienna, Austria

General Records 1936-1941(Entry 2050)

 

128 Department of State Bulletin, July 28, 1946, pp. 175-178.
123

Boxes 1-75 location: 350/49/2/02

Records of POLAD & USCOA, Vienna, Austria

General Records 1945-1952 (Entry 2054)

Boxes 1-134 location: 350/49/4/01

Supplemental General Records 1945-1946 (Entry 2055)

Boxes 1-2 location: 350/49/6/07

Classified General 1945-1955 (Entry 2056)

Boxes 1-105 location: 350/49/6/07

Top Secret Telegrams Sent and Received 1945-1948 (Entry 2058)

Box 1 location: 350/49/9/02

Top Secret USFA Cables 1947-1948 (Entry 2059)

Box 1 location: 350/49/9/02

Records of POLAD & High Commissioner USCOA, Vienna, Austria

Top Secret General Records 1945-1952 (Entry 2057)

Boxes 1-7 location: 350/49/9/01

Records of the U.S. Element of the Allied Commission for Austria

General Records 1945-1951 (Entry 2062)

Arranged alphabetically by subject and thereunder chronologically. Includes abstract

sheets for the documents in each folder.

Boxes 1-52 location: 350/49/9/03

Box # File Title or Subject

1 Assets Abroad

Assets, German location: 350/49/9/03

4 Banking and Loans location: 350/49/9/04

20-26 Government Laws location: 350/49/9/06

42-43 Restitution location: 350/49/10/03

Austria Basic Handbook 1945 (Entry 2063)

Box 1 location: 350/49/10/04

Austrian Military Government Handbook (Entry 2065)

Box 1 location: 350/49/10/04

Index to Subjects 1945-1953 (Entry 2066)

Box 1 location: 350/49/10/04

Handbook on Allied Commission 1949 (Entry 2067)

Box 1 location: 350/49/10/04

Agenda of the Meetings of the Allied Council 1945-1955 (Entry 2069)

Box 1 location: 350/49/10/04
124

Minutes of the Meetings of the Allied Council 1945-1955 (Entry 2070)

Boxes 1-4 location: 350/49/10/04

Papers of the Allied Council 1945-1955 (Entry 2071)

Boxes 1-4 location: 350/49/11/03

Proceedings of the Allied Council 1945-1955 (Entry 2072)

Boxes 1-36 location: 350/49/10/05

Reports of the U.S. High Commissioner 1945, 1947-1955 (Entry 2082

Boxes 1-5 location: 350/49/13/01

Records of the Inter-Allied Command Files, U.S. Element

General Records 1945-1955 (Entry 2092J)

Boxes 1-57 location: 350/49/15/04

Box 42 location: 350/B/9/06

Refiles 1945-1955 (Entry 2092K)

Boxes 1-3 location: 350/49/15/03

France

Germany invaded France on May 10, 1940. On June 22, 1940, France signed an armistice with Germany,

which split the country into an occupied north and an unoccupied south. On November 11, 1942,

Germany renounced the armistice and occupied all of France. Less than two years later France was free of

German occupation. The French Committee for National Liberation, formed in Algiers in 1943,

established a provisional government in Paris headed by General Charles de Gaulle. Both the United States

and the United Kingdom on October 23, 1944, recognized the French Provisional Government. The

Fourth Republic was created on December 24, 1946.

Records of the U.S. Embassy, Paris, France

General Records 1936-1941, 1944-1953 (Entry 2452A)

Boxes 1-574 location: 350/55/22/07

Classified General Records 1944-1953 (Entry 2453A)

Boxes 1-201 location: 350/55/35/02

Top Secret General Records 1944-1949, 1950-1951, 1954 (Entry 2454A)

Boxes 1-28 location: 350/56/4/03

Top Secret General Records 1950 (Entry 2454B)

Boxes 1-6 location: 350/56/13/04

Top Secret General Records 1952 (Entry 2454C)

Boxes 1-6 location: 350/56/13/05

Top Secret General Records 1953 (Entry 2454D)

Boxes 1-6 location: 350/56/13/06
125

Miscellaneous Top Secret General Records (Entry 2456)

Box 1 location: 350/56/4/07

Records of the Political Advisor to SHAEF (Paris), France

General Correspondence 1943-1944 (Entry 2483)

Box 1 location: 350/56/17/04

Special Correspondence 1943-1944 (Entry 2484)

Box 1 location: 350/56/17/04

(Contained in the same box 1 as Entry 2483)

Country Files 1943-1944 (Entry 2485)

This series is arranged alphabetically by country name and thereunder alphabetically by

subject.

Boxes 2-9 location: 350/56/17/04

Box # Country

2 Belgium

Czechoslovakia

Finland

3-6 France

7-8 Germany

9 Greece

Italy

Luxembourg

Netherlands

Norway

Poland

Rumania

Spain

Turkey

Yugoslavia

Subject Files 1943-1944 (Entry 2486)

This series is arranged alphabetically by subject.

Boxes 10-22 location: 350/56/17/05

Box # File Title

10 Civil Affairs (3 files)

11 Combined Civil Affairs Committee (2

files)

12 Finance and Currency

G-2 Daily News Summaries

G-2 Weekly News Summaries

13 G-2 Intelligence Notes

14 G-5 Civil Affairs Summaries

Joint Intelligence Committee

15 Neutral Countries

20 O.S.S. Intelligence Reports
126

O.S.S. and U.S. Navy Reports

22 Refugees and Displaced Persons

War Criminals

Messages 1943-1944 (Entry 2487)

Boxes 23-25 location: 350/56/17/07

Records of the U.S. Embassy Vichy, France

General Records 1940-1942 (Entry 2489)

Boxes 1-42 location: 350/56/17/07

Classified General Records (Confidential File) 1940-1942 (Entry 2490)

Boxes 1-21 location: 350/56/18/06

Miscellaneous Records 1942 (Entry 2491)

Box 1 location: 350/56/19/02

Germany

On May 8, 1945, Germany surrendered unconditionally to the Allies. On June 5, 1945, a four-nation

Allied Control Council beame the de facto government of Germany. For purposes of control, Germany

was divided into four national occupational zones, each headed by a Military Governor. On March 28,

1948, the Soviet Union walked out of the Allied Control Council. The United States, the United Kingdom,

and the Benelux countries agreed on May 31, 1948, to set up a German state comprising the three western

zones. The Federal Republic of Germany was proclaimed on May 23, 1949. Agreements in Paris in 1954

giving the Federal Republic full independence and complete sovereignty came into force on May 5, 1955.

Records of the Berlin [Germany] Mission

Finance Committee Records 1945-1952 (Entry 2527E)

Boxes 1-13 location: 350/56/35/06

Property Control Committee Records 1945-1952 (Entry 2527O)

Boxes 1-2 location: 350/57/2/01

Records of the Political Advisor for Germany

General Records (Entry 2528)

Box 1 location: 350/57/17/06

Records of the U.S. Political Advisor to the Supreme Allied Commander

Classified General Correspondence 1944 (Entry 2529)

Boxes 1-2 location: 350/57/17/06

Records of the Office of the U.S. Political Advisor for Germany, Berlin

Top Secret Correspondence of the U.S. Political Advisor for Germany, Robert Murphy,

1944-1949 (Entry 2530)

Box 1 location: 350/57/18/01

Classified General Correspondence of the Political Advisor, 1944-1949 (Entry 2531A)

Boxes 1-12 location: 350/57/18/01
127

Classified General Correspondence 1945-1949 (Entry 2531B)

Boxes 1-277 location: 350/57/18/02

Classified Miscellaneous General Correspondence of the Political Advisor, 1945-1948

(Entry 2532)

Box 1 location: 350/57/23/07

Top Secret General Correspondence 1945 (Entry 2532A)

Boxes 1-6 location: 350/57/23/07

Top Secret General Correspondence 1948-1949 (Entry 2532B)

Box 1 location: 350/57/24/01

Miscellaneous Classified Records 1948-1949 (Entry 2533)

Boxes 1-3 location: 350/57/24/01

Top Secret Cables to the Secretary of State 1945-1949 (Entry 2534)

Box 1 location: 350/57/24/02

Top Secret Cables from the Secretary of State 1946-1949 (Entry 2535)

Box 1 location: 350/57/24/02

Classified Cables Sent to the State Department 1945-1949 (Entry 2536)

Boxes 1-15 location: 350/57/24/02

Classified Cables Received from the State Department 1945-1949 (Entry 2537)

Boxes 1-14 location: 350/57/24/04

Top Secret Cables to Other Missions 1946-1949 (Entry 2538)

Box 1 location: 350/57/24/06

Classified Cables to Other Missions 1945-1948 (Entry 2539)

Boxes 1-7 location: 350/57/24/06

Top Secret Cables from Other Missions 1945-1949 (Entry 2540)

Boxes 1-2 location: 350/57/24/07

Classified Cables from Other Missions 1945-1949 (Entry 2541)

Boxes 1-22 location: 350/57/25/01

Records of the Office of the U.S. Political Advisor for Germany, Frankfurt

Top Secret Correspondence 1948-1949 (Entry 2542)

Box 1 location: 350/57/25/04

Classified General Correspondence 1946-1949 (Entry 2543)

Boxes 1-36 location: 350/57/25/04

Classified Cables Sent to the State Department 1946-1948 (Entry 2545)

Boxes 1-4 location: 350/57/26/03
128

Classified Cables from the State Department 1946-1948 (Entry 2546)

Boxes 1-3 location: 350/57/26/04

Top Secret Cables to and from Other Missions 1946-1949 (Entry 2547)

Box 1 location: 350/57/26/04

Classified Cables to Other Missions 1948 (Entry 2548)

Box 1 location: 350/57/26/04

Classified Cables Received from Other Missions 1947-1948 (Entry 2549)

Boxes 1-2 location: 350/57/26/05

Records of the Office of the U.S. Political Advisor for Germany, Heidelberg

Top Secret Cables to the Secretary of State 1948 (Entry 2550)

Box 1 location: 350/57/26/05

Top Secret Cables to Other Missions 1948 (Entry 2551)

Box 1 location: 350/57/26/05

Great Britain

Records of the U.S. Embassy, London, England

As the Safehaven program developed, especially as its instrumentation came to depand upon the

negotiation of treaties between the Government of the United States and individual neutrals, or between

the British and American Governments and the neutrals, the American Embassy in London became the

chief center of the program’s activities in Europe.

The Economic Warfare Division of the Embassy was organized in March 1942, “to establish a more

intimate liaison between the maniforld economic warfare activities centered in the Ministry of Economic

Warfare (BEW) and comparable activities in the United States Government.”129 The division developed as

an operating agency, taking active part in programs, after the termination of the war, became of special

significane in the Safehaven program. For example, the division assisted in the formulation of the

Blockade program, its personnel being represented on the Blockade Committee on equal terms with the

British. This committee dealt with the concrete job of handling permits and of defining contraband. The

work of its membership based on data furnished by other agencies of government resulted in the

Proclaimed Lists--important themselves for Safehaven program purposes.

The division worked with MEW in planning new war trade agreements. As early as 1942 the British and

Americans started conversations with Sweden and Switzerland relative to re-negotiating purchase-supply

contracts on the basis of Allied war needs and war aims.

The division also had a Pre-Emptive Committee,130 its chief concern being to watch matters pertaining to

the preclusive purchase program undertaken by the United States Commercial Company, and the United

 

129 Clarke, “Safehaven Study,” p. 106. The division was headed first by Winfield Riefler and then by

William T. Stone, both of the Foreign Economic Administration (FEA), and it was staffed by FEA, State

Department, and Office of Strategic Services personnel. ibid., p. 106n.65.

130 According to Margaret Clarke “Since the preclusive files were later to yield rich clues to Germany’s

post-war penetration plans, the work of the committee with regard to preclusion was of considerable long-range

significance.” Clarke, “Safehaven Study,” pp. 107-108.
129

Kingdom Commercial Corporation in Spain, Portugal, Turkey, and the Near East.131

The Division’s Enemy Objectives Unit, staffed with Office of Economic Warfare and Office of Strategic

Services personnel, was responsible for procuring, analyzing, and distributing economic intelligence

procurable in Great Britain and in Europe and desired by processing and operating agencies in

Washington, DC.

When the Safehaven program began to operate in a practical way--intelligence gathering in neutral Europe

and trade negotiations with neutrals for Safehaven objectives, the American Embassy in London became

the clearing house between the United States and its operators in Europe. Cables for agents in the neutral

countries and from them, clearing through the Embassy. The staff there acted in both directive and

advisory capacities. With the end of the war, the Embassy became the focal point for negotiations between

civilian operating agencies of the United States and the American Military Government of Germany and

Italy.132

General Records 1936-1945, 1948-1954; 1955 (Entry 2599A)

Boxes 1-491 location: 350/58/17/04

Box 324A location: 350/58/27/05 (labeled as Entry 2599B)

Classified General Records (Confidential File) 1943-1954 (Entry 2600A)

Boxes 1-351 location: 350/58/28/04

Security-Classified General Records 1945 (Entry 2600C)

Boxes 323-324 location: 350/58/35/05

Security Segregated General Records 1938-1952 (Entry 2600D)

Boxes 287-321 location: 350/58/35/05

Secret General Records 1937-1955 (Entry 2601)

Box 1A location: 350/59/1/03

Top Secret General Records 1948-1955 (Entry 2602)

Box 1 location: 350/59/1/03

Top Secret Subject File 1946-1947 (Entry 2602A)

Boxes 102 location: 350/59/3/05

Records Maintained by Ambassador John G. Winant 1938-1946 (Entry 2603)

John Gilbert Winant served as the U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain in 1941, and served

in that capacity until 1946.

Boxes 1-8 location: 350/59/1/03

 

131 Besides a blockade the British took measures to restrict the flow of good into Germany by means of

control at the source. Exports from the Commonwealth and Empire were subject to licensing control from early in

the war and in January 1940 the United Kingdom Commercial Corporation was established to make pre-emptive

purchases of strategic goods to prevent them from falling into enemy hands and this practice was greatly extended

from the summer of 1940. The United Kingdom Commercial Corporation handled the purchase and sale of goods

from neutral countries, particularly Turkey, Spain, and Portugal. The United States Government would take similar

measure once it entered the war, with the United States Commercial Company and other companies.

132 Clarke, “Safehaven Study,” pp. 108-109.
130

Box # File Title

1 Economic Matters

2 Germany

3 Jews

5 Palestine

5 Portugal

6 Refugees

8 World Jewish Congress

Italy

On September 3, 1943, Marshal Pietro Badoglio concluded an armistice with the Allies. the armistice

provided for a Control Commission to regulate and execute the terms of the armistice under the direction

of the Supreme Allied Commander. On November 10, 1943, General Eisenhower announced the

establishment of the Allied Control Commission for Italy.133 In October 1944 the United States decided to

renew diplomatic relations with Italy.134 Italy joined the war against Germany as a co-beligerent. A peace

treaty was concluded on February 10, 1947, and it entered into force on September 15, 1947.135

Records of the U.S. Embassy, Rome, Italy

Records Pertaining to German Assets in Italy 1945-1957 (Entry 2784)

Boxes 1-19 location: 350/62/7/05

Records Pertaining to German Assets in Italy 1947-1957 (entry 2784A)

Boxes 1-3 location: 350/62/7/07

Classified Records Pertaining to German Assets in Italy 1947-1957 (Entry 2785)

Boxes 1-2 location: 350/62/8/01

Portugal

Portugal, a Fascist state under the rule of Antonio Salazar, remained a neutral throughout the war, despite

the terms of her alliance with Great Britain. Throughout most of the war Portugal sold its precious

supplies of wolframite (a source of tungsten used for making steel alloy) to both sides, and was an active

trading partner with Germany. As a result, Portugal found itself relatively well off when the war ended. 

Despite its neutrality, in October 1943, Portugal allowed the Allies to use air and naval bases in the

Azores. In June 1944, Salazar, under Allied pressure, including Brazil, agreed to stop Portugal’s wolfram

shipments to Germany.

Records of The U.S. Embassy, Lisbon, Portugal

Lisbon was the chief distribution port for International Red Cross Committee relief

supplies to prisoner-of-war and internment camps; the main link for civilian flights between the

United Kingdom and the Unitted States; and, a notorious center for spies. Lisbon became the

center for tens of thousands of refugees from Central Europe, the Low Countries, and France.

General Records 1936-1945, 1950-1952 (Entry 3126)

Boxes 1-37 location: 350/67/9/04

 

133 Department of State Bulletin, August 6, 1944, pp. 137-138.

134 Department of State Bulletin, February 16, 1945, p. 287.

135 Department of State Bulletin, June 1, 1947, pp. 1076-1080.
131

Classified General Records (Confidential File) 1942-1949, 1950-1952 (Entry 3127)

Boxes 1-46 location: 350/67/12/02

Top Secret General Records 1945-1949 (Entry 3128)

Box 1 location: 350/67/13/02

Top Secret Subject Files 1946-1952 (Entry 3129A)

Box 1 location: 350/13/06

Records Relating to German External Assets in Portugal 1947-1956 (Entry 3138)

Boxes 1-3 location: 350/67/13/06

Subject Files of the Financial Attache, James E. Wood 1942-1945 (Entry 3139)

Boxes 1-3 Box 1 contains material on Argentina and banks.

Box 3 contains information on gold and claims on German Government assets.

location: 350/67/13/06

Company and Individual Files of the Financial Attache, James E. Wood, 1943-1945

(Entry 3140)

Box 1 location: 350/67/13/07

Spain

Despite the sympathies of the Spanish Government under Francisco Franco with the Axis and its constant

provocations, such as the seizure of Tangier in North Africa, and harboring spies and saboteurs, the United

States and Great Britain followed a care policy in the expectation that Spain would not become an avowed

belligerent. For most of the war Spain remained pro-Axis, but non-belligerent. Spain helped the Axis by

servicing their planes, allowed their agents to operate in Madrid, and provided Germany with wolframite. 

After the fall of Mussolini in July 1943, Spain softened its stance against the Allies. After much pressure,

in May 1944, Spain agreed to reduce drastically its tungsten exports to Germany, to hand over all interned

Italian ships, to close the German consulate in Tangier, and to expel all German agents on Spanish

territory. With respect to the latter, Spain continued to give Germany intelligence aid right up until the end

of the war. It did not sever diplomatic relations with Germany until April 1945.

Spain had been asked in October 1944 to state its adherence to Bretton Woods Resolution VI. It did not

do so until May 5, 1945. Neither did Spain freeze Geman assets nor the assets of Axis dominated

countries until the same date. A few days later, however, Spain exempted from blocking the assets of

countries with whome it still maintained diplomatic relations.136

Records of the U.S. Embassy, Madrid Spain

General Records 1936, 1939-1945, 1950-1952 (Entry 3161)

Boxes 1-134 location: 350/67/23/04

Classified General Files (Security-Segregated Records) 1940-1952 (Entry 3162)

Boxes 1-187 location: 350/67/26/02

Secret General Records 1944-1945 (Entry 3163)

 

136 Clarke, “Safehaven Study,” pp. 185-187. Researchers on these issues should consult FRUS, 1944, Vol.

II, pp. 213-251, and FRUS, 1945, Vol. II, pp. 852-932.
132

Boxes 1-2 location: 350/67/30/01

Top Secret General Records 1944-1945, 1947-1955 (Entry 3164)

Boxes 3-5 location: 350/67/30/02

Sweden

Sweden was able to survive during the war as a non-belligerent state by following a flexible policy towards

to the Axis and the Allies. In September 1939 Sweden warned the Allies and the Axis that if either

invaded their country they would destroy every factory, mine, and train in Sweden--meaning there would

be no more steel or ball bearings for sale. In 1940, Sweden agree to allow German military to operate on

Swedish territory. Sweden would also allow agents on both sides to function undisturbed. The 1940 transit

agreement with Germany was terminated in August 1943, after strong American and British pressure. 

During the remainder of the war Sweden continued to pursue a policy which was generally accommodating

to the Allies and unhelpful towards Germany.

The American Government in late 1944 and early 1945, as part of the Safehaven Program, attempted to

have Swedes adhere to the Bretton Woods Resolution VI and to refrain from dealings with Gemany. In

November 1944, Sweden adopted new exchange regulations which had the effect of blocking capital

transfers. Sween also promised to conduct a census of Geman assets, but offer no guarantee that the

findings would be made availabel to the Allies. However the Swedish Government did not agree to accept

Bretton Woods Resolution VI, and rejected all but two of the specific Safehaven requests made by the

Allies.137

Records of the U.S. Embassy, Stockholm Sweden

General Records 1936-1952 (Entry 3195)

Boxes 1-138 location: 350/68/9/01

Classified General File (Confidential File) 1944-1952 (Entry 3197)

Boxes 1-13 location: 350/68/11/07

Top Secret General Records 1943-1952 (Entry 3198)

Boxes 1-4 location: 350/68/12/02

Switzerland

Surrounded on all sides by the Axis powers, Switzerland attempted to hold on to its traditional policy of

neutrality. Despite the Allies establishing a black list of Swiss firms who traded with the Axis, the Swiss

sold to the Axis and the Allies alike; its factories producing precision instruments, fuses, clocks and

watches, and many other items. And Swiss banks, offering a safe, reliable repository for foreign funds,

increased their holdings during the war, receiving regular shipments of gold from Germany.

Indeed, the German-Swiss financial connection was strong. According to one historian, by the end of

1944, “it was estimated that German investments and accounts in Switzerland amounted to $600,000,000. 

It was also believed that considerable amounts of German assets were represented in securities, currencies,

jewels, works of art, etc., held in Swiss safety deposit boxes. German real estate holdings in Switzerland

were thought to be worth $62,500,000...” “Privately owned German accounts were reported to be in excess

of 500 million Swiss fancs. These,” Margaret Clarke wrote, “were easy to cloak since the Secrecy Act

 

137 Clarke, “Safehaven Study,” pp. 162-165, 171-172. Researchers on these issues should consult FRUS,

1944, Vol. II, pp. 213-251, and FRUS, 1945, Vol. II, pp. 852-932. 
133

permitted Swiss banks to hide ownership under numbered accounts.”138

The American Government in late 1944 and early 1945, as part of the Safehaven Program, attempted to

have Switzerland adhere to the Bretton Woods Resolution VI and to refrain from dealings with Gemany. 

The Swiss Government responded to these desires in February 1945, by freezing German assets. In March

the Swiss put a prohibition on importing and exporting foreign currencies. On March 8, 1945, the Swiss

stated it would block Romanian and Bulgarian assets and undertake a census of German assets. The Swiss

also promised to prevent the Germans from exporting loot into Switzerland, and to take steps to make

return of loot already in Switzerland to legal owners. And, the Swiss agreed to cease purchasing German

gold. However, the Swiss objected to adhering to Resolution VI. Further, the Swiss were not persuaded to

reveal the facts of the census of German assets, nor were they willing to reveal all the facts regarding future

transactions with the Germans, make Swiss governmental machinery available to Allied inspectors and

prosecutors, and allow their nationals to act as Allied agents against German interests. The Swiss regarded

the Allies demands as contrary to their interests and position as a neutral.139

Records of the U.S. Legation in Bern, Switzerland

General Records 1936-1946, 1949-1952 (Entry 3207)

Boxes 1-150 & 24A location: 350/68/16/01

General Records 1953-1955 (Entry 3209B)

Boxes 1-17 location: 350/68/30/04

General Records 1933-1963 (Entry 3209A)

Boxes 1-24 location: 350/68/30/01

Classified General Records 1940-1952 (Entry 3208)

Boxes 1-111 location: 350/68/19/01

Top Secret Subject Files 1942-1948 (Entry 3209)

Box 1 location: 350/68/30/01

Records of the Economic Section of the U.S. Legation, Bern

General Records, 1942-48 (Entry 3220) 

Boxes 1-100 location: 350/68/24/06

Safehaven Subject Files, 1942-49 (Entry 3221)

Arranged alphabetically by subject.

Boxes 1-16 location: 350/68/26/06

Box # File Titles

1 APC Representatives thru Clearing Switzerland and

Germany

2 Czech Assets in Switzerland thru Disposition of Enemy

Property

3 Enemy Assets thru German Dummy Firms

 

138 Clarke, “Safehaven Study,” p. 137.

139 Clarke, “Safehaven Study,” pp. 141-144. Researchers on these issues should consult FRUS, 1944, Vol.

II, pp. 213-251, and FRUS, 1945, Vol. II, pp. 852-932.
134

4 German Economic Penetration thru German Government

Archives

5 German Insurance Companies thru Gold in Switzerland

6 Good in Transit thru I.A.R.A.

7 Iida thru Japanese Legation

8 JEIA List thru Looted Works of Art

9 Merchandise in Free Ports thru Newsprint

10 Patent Data thru Patents

11 Petitions thru Press Reviews

12 Press Reviews thru Rapid Firm

13 Relations with Swiss Government thru Safehaven

Negotiations with Spain

14 Safehaven Negotiations with Sweden thru Swiss Women

Married to Germans

15 Tagermoos thru Trade with Germany

16 Trade with Germany thru X-Ray

Safehaven General Subject Files, 1942-49 (Entry 3222)

Boxes 1-18 location: 350/68/27/01

Box # File Titles or Subjects

1 Conversations with Swiss thru Enemy Assets

2 Enemy Assets

3 Enemy Assets thru Exposes

4 German Assets

5 German Individuals A-G

6 German Individuals H-L

7 German Individuals M-R

8 German Individuals S-Z

9-12 German Target Sheets-Intercepts from Germany

13 Japanese Assets in Switzerland

14 Joint Committee Meetings

15 Joint Committee Meetings thru London Conference

16 Negotiations thru Renegotiation of Washington Accord

17 Renegotiation thru Swiss Compensation Office

18 Trade with Japan thru Washington Conference

Safehaven Name Files, 1942-49 (Entry 3223)

Boxes 1-118 location: 350/68/27/04

Safehaven General Name Files, 1942-45 (Entry 3224)

Boxes 1- 4 location: 350/68/29/07

Records of the U.S. Consulate, Basel, Switzerland140

General Records 1936-1952 (Entry 3226)

Boxes 1A-58 location: 350/68/30/07

 

140 Note: The Bank for International Settlements is located in Basel; as is the headquarters for The Swiss

Bank Corporation, one of the three largest banks in Switzerland.
135

Supplemental General Records 1946 (Entry 3227)

Box 1 location: 350/68/32/01

Confidential File 1938-1949 (Entry 3228)

Boxes 1-16 location: 350/68/32/01

Records of the U.S. Consulate Geneva, Switzerland

General Records 1936-1952 (Entry 3233)

Boxes 1-90 location: 350/68/33/05

Classified General Records (Confidential File) 1936-1952 (Entry 3234)

Boxes 1-9 location: 350/68/35/04

Records of the U.S. Representative to the Economic Commission For Europe

Classified and Unclassified ECE and ECA Files, 1947-1951

(Entry 3238A)

Boxes 1-10 location: 350/69/2/01

Records of the U.S. Consulate Zurich, Switzerland141

General Records 1936-1952 (Entry 3241)

Boxes 1-130 location: 350/69/2/03

Political Reports and Press Reviews 1942-1943 (Entry 3242)

Boxes 1-3 location: 350/69/5/01

Classified General Records (Confidential File) 1935-1949 (Entry 3243)

Boxes 1-13 location: 350/69/5/01

Top Secret Records 1945 (Entry 3244)

Box 1 location: 350/69/5/03

Turkey

Turkey remained neutral until February 23, 1945, when it declared war on Germany.

Records of the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, Turkey

Safehaven Files 1944-1948 (Entry 3290)

Boxes 1-5 location: 350/69/26/01

Belgium

Records of the U.S. Embassy in Brussels, Belgium

Files of the U.S. Delegation to the Inter-Allied Reparations Agency (IARA)

The governments of Albania, the United States of America, Australia, Belgium, Canada,

Denmark, Egypt, France, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Greece,

 

141 Note: the headquarters of Credit Suisse and the Union Bank of Switzerland, two of the three largest

Swiss banks, are located in Zurich.
136

India, Luxembourg, Norway, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, the Union of South

Africa, and Yugoslavia,142 to obtain an equitable distribution among themselves of the total assets

which had been agreed to at Potsdam on August 1, 1945, and at the Paris Agreement on

Reparation From Germany of January 14, 1946, and other assets that may later have been declared

to be available as reparation from Germany, established on January 14, 1946, an Inter-Allied

Reparation Agency. This agency was mandated “to settle an equitable procedure for the restitution

of monetary gold.”

Part I of the Agreement set out the procedures for reparations. Key portions include:

Article I, “Shares in Reparation,” provided that German reparation (exclusive of the funds

to be allocated to ”nonrepatriable victims of German action”) should be divided into two

categories: Category A, “which shall include all forms of German reparation except those included

in Category B; Category B, which shall include industrial and other capital equipment removed

from Germany, and merchant ships and inland water transport.” Each Signatory Government

would be entitled to the following percentage shares:

Country Category

A

Category B

Albania 0.05 0.35

United States of

America

28.00 11.80

Australia .70 .95

Belgium 2.70 4.50

Canada 1.50 3.50

Denmark .25 .35

Egypt .05 .20

France 16.00 22.80

United Kingdom 28.00 27.80

Greece 2.70 4.35

Luxembourg .15 .40

Norway 1.90 1.30

New Zealand .40 .60

Netherlands 3.90 5.60

Czechoslovakia 3.00 4.30

Union of South Africa .70 .10

Yugoslavia 6.60 9.60

Article 6, “German External Assets,” provided that each Signatory Government should

“hold or dispose of Germany enemy assets within its jurisdiction in manners designed to preclude

their return to German ownership or control and shall charge against its reparation share such

assets.”

It also provided, in paragraph C:

“German assets in those countries which remained neutral in the war against Germany

shall be removed from German ownership or control and liquidated or disposed of in accordance

with the authority of France, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, pursuant to

arrangements to be negotiated with the neutrals by these countries. The net proceeds of liquidation

of disposition shall be made available to the Inter-Allied Reparation Agency for distribution on

 

142 Subsequently Italy, Poland, and Austria would adhere to the Paris Agreement.
137

reparation account.”

Article 8, “Allocation of a Reparation Share to Nonrepatriable Victims of German

Action,” provided that “in recognition of the fact that large numbers of persons have suffered

heavily at the hands of the Nazis and now stand in dire need of aid...but will be unable to claim the

assistance of any Government receiving reparations from Germany” the United States

Government, in conjunction with several other countries working in consultation with the InterGovernmental Committee on Refugees, under the following guidelines to agreement regarding

victims’ share in the reparations: paragraph A provided that “a share of reparation consisting of all

the non-monetary gold found by the Allied Armed Forces in Germany and in addition a sum not

exceeding 25 million dollars shall be allocated for the rehabilitation and resettlement of nonrepatriable victims of German action; paragraph B. The sum of 25 million dollars shall be met

from a portion of the proceeds of German assets in neutral countries which are available for

reparation.; paragraph C. governments of neutral countries shall be requested to make available for

this purpose (in addition to the sum of 25 million dollars) assets in such countries of victims of

Nazi action who have since died and left no heirs.” Additionally, in paragraph F it was provided

that “the non-monetary gold found in Germany shall be placed at the disposal of the InterGovernmental Committee on Refugees as soon as a plan has been worked out as provided above.”

Part II of the Agreement established the Inter-Allied Reparations Agency. Each signatory

government was authorized to appoint a Delegate to the Agency and an alternate to act in the

absence of the Delegate. The official functions of the Agency were to allocate German reparations

among the Signatory Government in accordance with the provisions of the Agreement and of any

other agreements in force among the Signatory Governments; serve as the medium through which

the Signatory Governments receive information concerning, and express their wishes in regard to,

items available as reparation; deal with all questions relating to the restitution to a Signatory

Government of property situated in one of the Western Zones of Germany which may be referred

to it by the Commander of that Zone (acting on behalf of his Government), in agreement with the

claimant Signatory Government or Governments, without prejudice, however, to the settlement of

such questions by the Signatory Governments concerned either by agreement or arbitration. The

Agreement provided that the IARA would be based in Brussels, Belgium.

Part III of the Agreement, entitled “Restitution of Monetary Gold,” provided that:

“A. All the monetary gold found in Germany by the Allied Forces and that referred to in

paragraph G below (including gold coins, except those of numismatic or historical value, which

shall be restored directly if identifiable) shall be pooled for distribution as restitution among the

countries participating in the pool in proportion to their respective losses of gold through looting or

by wrongful removal to Germany.

“B. Without prejudice to claims by way of reparation for unrestored gold, the portion of

monetary gold thus accruing to each country participating in the pool shall be accepted by that

country in full satisfaction of all claims against Germany for restitution of monetary gold.

“C. A proportional share of the gold shall be allocated to each country concerned which

adheres to this arrangement for the restitution of monetary gold and which can establish that a

definite amount of monetary gold belonging to it was looted by Germany or, at any time after

March 12th, 1938, was wrongfully removed into German territory.

“D. The question of the eventual participation of countries not represented at the

Conference (other than Germany but not including Austria and Italy) in the above mentioned

distribution shall be reserved, and the equivalent of the total shares which these countries would

receive, if they were eventually admitted to participate, shall be set aside to be disposed of at a
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later date in such manner as may be decided by the Allied Governments concerned.

“E. The various countries participating in the pool shall supply to the Governments of the

United States of America, France, and the United Kingdom, as the occupying Powers concerned,

detailed and verifiable data regarding the gold losses suffered through looting by, or removal to,

Germany.

“F. The Government of the United States of America, France and the United Kingdom

shall take appropriate steps within the Zones of Germany occupied by them respectively to

implement distribution in accordance with the foregoing provisions.

“G. Any monetary gold which may be recoverable from a third country to which it was

transferred from Germany shall be distributed in accordance with this arrangement for the

restitution of monetary gold.”143

Correspondence Reports, General 1945-1951 (Entry 2113A)

Boxes 1-2 location: 631/19/62/07

Plants & Other Industrial Capitol Equipment & Miscellaneous Subject Material

(Entry 2113B)

Boxes 1-7 location: 631/19/62/07

Shipping, 1945-1951, Classified General Records (Entry 2113C)

Box 1 location: 631/19/63/01

Current Productions and Stocks, 1945-1950, Classified General Records (Entry 2113D)

Box 1 location: 631/19/63/02

 German External Assets, 1945-1955, IARA Records of James W. Angell (Entry 2113E)

Box 1 location: 631/19/63/03

German External Assets, 1945-1955, Classified IARA Subject File (Entry 2113F)

Boxes 1-8 location: 631/19/63/01

German External Assets, 1946-1953, Classified General Records (Entry 2113G)

Boxes 1-12 location: 631/19/63/03

German External Assets, 1945-199, Classified IARA Chrono File (Entry 2113H)

Box 1 location: 631/19/63/04

Industrial Property Rights, 1945-1951, Classified General Records (Entry 2113I)

Box 1 location: 631/19/63/05

Captured Enemy Supplies 1945-1952, Classified and General Records (Entry 2113J)

Box 1 location: 631/19/64/01

Reparations Accounting 1945-1949, Classified General Records (Entry 2113K)

 

143 Germany: Distribution of Reparation: Establishment of Inter-Allied Reparation Agency; Restitution of

Monetary Gold: Agreement Between the United States of America and Other Governments, Department of State

Publication 2966, Treaties and Other International Acts Series 1655, pp. 1-29. The agreement was opened for

signature in Paris, January 14, 1946; it entered into force, January 24, 1946.
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Boxes 1-2 location: 631/19/64/01

Tripartite Gold Commission, 1946-1956; Country Files (Entry 2113L)

Boxes 1-7 location: 631/19/63/05

Tripartite Gold Commission, 1946-1954, Classified General Records (Entry 2113M)

Boxes 1-16 location: 631/19/63/06

Tripartite Gold Commission, 1946-1950, Subject Files (Entry 2113N)

Boxes 1-7 location: 631/19/64/01

Miscellaneous Reparation and Restitution Questions, 1943-1951, General Records

(Entry 2113O)

Box 1 location: 631/19/64/02

IARA Organization and Administration, 1945-1952, Classified General Records

(Entry 2113P)

Boxes 1-2 location: 631/19/64/04

Arbitration Proceedings, 1944-1949, Classified Records (Entry 2113Q)

Box 1 location: 631/19/64/03

Press Material 1946-1951; Classified General Records (Entry 2113R)

Box 1 location: 350/49/24/05

Reference Materials 1944-1951 (Entry 2113S)

Boxes 1-12 location: 631/19/64/03

IARA Classified Subject File 1945-1961 (Entry 2113T)

Boxes 1-3 location: 631/19/64/05

IARA Incoming/Outgoing Cables, 1945-1948, Classified General Records (Entry 2113U)

Boxes 1-4 location: 631/19/64/05

Records of Interdepartmental and Intradepartmental Committees (State Department) (RG 353)

Records of the Secretary of State’s Staff Committee, 1944-1947

During World War II more than 100 committees within the State Department dealt with numerous

problems generated by that conflict and developed plans and programs for the postwar period. In late 1944

the Department established the Secretary’s Staff Committee, giving it the authority to coordinate and direct

these activities. By the terms of its establishing directive (Departmental Order 1301 of December 20,

1944), the Staff Committee replaced both the Policy Committee and the Committee on Postwar Programs,

and, with the broadest jurisdiction of any departmental group, it became the final review and advisory body

for foreign policy and international relations. Created to be “available for instant consultation with the

Secretary,” the Committee met at his call or, as was frequently the case, at that of the vice chairman. Its

broad objective was to “advise and otherwise assist the Secretary in determining current and long range

foreign policy...[based] on the full range and interests of the Department.” Its composition was the

Secretary of State as chairman, the Under Secretary (vice chairman), the Assistant Secretaries, the Legal

Adviser, and the Special Assistant for International Organization and Security Affairs. Participation by

others was by special invitation. The Committee was abolished by Departmental Announcement 575 of
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June 18, 1947.

The records of the Committee relate both to the formulation and to the conduct of U.S. foreign policy. The

Committee was concerned with virtually every major aspect of the Nation’s involvement with international

political, economic, and social programs. Of particular interest are the records involving decisions,

commitments, and activities related to the multinational conferences at Yalta, Dumbarton Oaks, San

Francisco, Potsdam, and Bretton Woods; armistice negotiations and postwar relations with former eastern

European belligerents; the surrender of Germany and Japan and subsequent demilitarization, occupation,

and economic programs there; the European Economic Commission; and international monetary and

economic arrangements.

Regular Committee members received an agenda and, in many instances, one or more subject matter

documents in advance of each scheduled meeting. The documents were topical staff studies that informed

each member of various views within the Department on the subject under consideration. Each document

analyzed a topic by addressing it as a “Problem,” by making applicable “Recommendations,” and then

presenting a relevant “Discussion.” The minutes of meetings paraphrase discussions of agenda items and

of additional unscheduled matters considered urgent business by the Committee. After the conclusion of a

meeting, a Daily (designated “SC/R”), Weekly (“SC/W”), or Monthly (“SC/M”) Summary of Action and

Directives was issued. These reports summarized the Committee’s decisions, directives, and

recommendations and provided a permanent reference for the Department in formulating policy.

Several points should be emphasized about the use of the Committee’s records. Most of the series are

arranged chronologically and in numerical sequence. The Committee frequently held two meetings on the

same day, and the minutes of these sessions were consecutively numbered. The subject matter documents

were often revised, in which case the original identification number was retained and an alphabetical or

numerical suffix was assigned. (For example, document No. SC-00 might be reissued as SC-00a or SC00/1). Also, it should be noted that there is no index to the minutes of the Committee meetings.

There were 70 sessions with related agenda; such sessions were called on short notice to consider urgent

business. Researchers should exercise caution in using the agenda as a topical guide to the business of the

Committee. Rather, they should consult entries in the Index to Documents and Reports on a particular

subject, obtain the date on which the topic was considered by the Committee from the heading on the first

page of the specified report , and then refer to the minutes of the meeting for that specific day.

The records of the committee have been microfilmed as Microfilm Publication M1054 (Entries 370-374,

376-381)

Roll # Description

1 Index to Staff Committee Documents and Reports Agenda of Staff

Committee Meetings December 20, 1944-January 18, 1947

1-2 Staff Committee Documents, Nos. 1-210, December 22, 1944-

April 7,1947

3-4 Minutes of Staff Committee Meetings, Nos. 1-207 December 20,

1944-January 18, 1947

4 Summaries of Staff Committee Meetings December 22, 1944-June

21, 1945

Reports to the Secretary on Staff Committee Meetings February 2-

March 10, 1945

Daily Summaries of Action and Directives, SC/R Nos. 1-207;

December 20, 1944-January 18, 1947

5 Weekly Summaries of Action and Directives, SC/W Nos. 1-33;

January 13-October 1,1945

Monthly Summaries of Action and Directives, SC/M Nos. 1-10;
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November 1, 1945-August 1, 1946

Miscellaneous Memorandums, Staff Studies, and Correspondence

November 2, 1944-March 6, 1947

Records of the European Neutrals Committee, 1945-1946

The European Neutrals Committee (ENC) was formed in January 1945 to formulate a combined AngloAmerican policy toward economic relations with and problems of European neutrals. The membership

included the representatives of several U.S. Departments, including State, Treasury, and the Foreign

Economic Administration, and two members from the British Embassy. 

Minutes of Meetings January 1945-February 1946 (Entry 240)

Topics discussed at meetings included economic agreements, supplies, trade, and

cooperation with the following neutrals: Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, and

Tangier.

Box 24 location: 250/67/34/06

Records of the Executive Committee of Economic Foreign Policy

The Executive Committee of Economic Foreign Policy (ECEFP) was established in April 1944, as an

interdepartmental group, to function as the primary planning and coordinating body for economic policy. 

The ECEFP studied isues involved in economic warfare, anticipated the economic programs connected

with Germany in the postwar period, and took steps to initiate plans which would operated effectively after

the defeat of the Axis. It considered from time to time such matters as modification of wartime financial

controls over foreign assets. It had, for example, considered the possibility of continuing the Proclaimed

List after the surrender of Germany as a method of economic supervision of Axis friends.

The ECEFP assumed control for the special committee of the Division of Commercial Policy and directed

the preparation of proposals for the international trade organization. The Committee was terminated at the

end of 1949.

Files Concerning Interdepartmental Committees Related to the ECEEP February 9, 1944-August

3, 1949 (Entry 202)

Box 76. File labeled “5.19F. Interdivisional Committee on Reparation, Restitution, and

Property Rights” This file covers the period february-September 1944. Also file labeled “Proposed

Subcommittee of the ECEEP on Post-hostilities Control over Foreign Property.” This proposal

made by S. J. Rubin 1944. File covers the 1944 period. location: 250/67/35/07

Subject Files 1944-1949 (Entry 204)

Box 78 contains information about the Safehaven project, covering the 1944-1945

period. location: 250/67/35/07

Records of the Economic Warfare Planning Committee

The Economic Warfare Planning Committee (EWP) was established December 1, 1948. The EWP was to

coordinate the views of the appropriate offices within the Department and advise the Secretary of State on

plans and operations of economic warfare involving U.S. foreign policy. 

Documents December 15, 1948-April 6, 1949 (Entry 302)

Includes various documents regarding economic warfare, and provides

historicalbackground to economic warfare activities during World War II.

Box 22 location: 250/67/34/06
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Memoranda and Reports October 1, 1948-February 10, 1951 (Entry 305)

Includes reports and draft reports relating to United States economic warfare activities

during World War II.

Box 23 location: 250/67/34/06‘

Records of the Division of World Trade Intelligence and its Successor, Division of Economic Security

Controls

On July 17, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a Presidential Proclamation which instructed the

Secretary of State, acting in conjunction with the Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General, the

Secretary of Commerce, the Administrator of Export Controls, and the Coordinator of Commercial and

Cultural Relations between the American Republics, to prepare an appropriate list of persons and firms

working with or for Axis nations and persons to whom exports from the United States were deemed

detrimental to the interests of national defense. As a result of this order the Secretary of State established

on July 21, 1941, the Division of World Trade Intelligence to handle State Department responsibilities

pertaining to the Proclaimed List of Certain Blocked Nationals. The Division was at first under the direct

supervision of Assistant Secretary Dean Acheson but later became part of the Board of Economic

Operations and successor economic offices. On March 1, 1945, it was renamed the Division of Economic

Security Controls and as such became a part of the Office of Economic Security Policy on October 20 of

that year.

The Division of World Trade Intelligence prepared the original “Proclaimed List of Certain Blocked

Nationals” and maintained its various supplements and revisions from 1941 to 1946. The lists named

persons and companies, resident in areas outside of enemy control, who directly or indirectly rendered

substantial aid to the enemy war machine. Those listed were denied the privilege of trading with the

United States. 

After the victories in Europe and the Pacific, the List was reduced to a “hard core” of the worst offenders. 

With the concurrence of the Departments of the Treasury, Justice, and Commerce, the Department of State

announced the withdrawal of the “Proclaimed Lists,” also known as the “American Black List,” effective

July 8, 1946.

Record Set of the “Proclaimed List of Certain Blocked Nationals” 1941-1946 (Entry 36)

Arranged chronologically. Record set of “Proclaimed List of Certain Blocked Nationals,”

July 17, 1941; the seven supplements to the List, July 28, 1941-January 14, 1942; Revisions I

through X of the List, February 7, 1942-December 20, 1945; the supplements to each Revision;

and the notice of the List’s withdrawal, July 8, 1946. As additions to and deletions from the List

required continual changes in its composition, supplements to the original List, revisions of it, and

supplements to these revisions proved necessary.

Boxes 1-2 location: 250/67/30/07

Proclaimed List of Certain Blocked Nationals Case Files 1941-1948 (Entry 36A)

Boxes 1-16 location: 250/67/30/04

British Statutory List 1940-1946 (Entry 37)

Arranged chronologically. File copies of the various amended versions of the British

Statutory List, issued pursuant to the Trading with the Enemy Order through the Board of Trade,

Amendment No. 9 for 1940 (August 3) through Amendment No. 16 for 1946 (June 11), plus the

Revocation of the List, July 6, 1946. The British Statutory List was very similar to the American

Proclaimed List, in that it published the names of persons and firms in areas outside of enemy
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control who had in some way rendered significant aid to the enemy war machine, and that those

listed were proscribed from trading with the British Empire.144

Boxes 2-3 location: 250/67/30/07

British War Trade Lists 1941-1944 (Entry 38)

Arranged chronologically. File copies of the War Trade Lists Nos. 6-18, June 1, 1941-

November 1, 1944, and of the Advice Notes which supplemented the Lists, 1941-1945. The

British War Trade Lists, issued by the Ministry of Economic Warfare, differed from the British

Statutory List in that they contained all the information included in the latter, as well as the names

on the British Black List and Ships War Trade Lists. The War Trade Lists were thus more

comprehensive than the Statutory Lists, and were considered confidential, whereas the Statutory

List was published. With the cessation of the British Black List on May 26, 1945, the War Trade

List no longer differed significantly from the Statutory List, and a notice that no further Advice

Notes would be forthcoming was issued on June 23, 1945.

Boxes 4-6 location: 250/67/30/07

British M.E.W. “G” List 1941-1943 (Entry 39)

Arranged chronologically. File copies of the British Ministry of Economic War

(MEW) “G” List, Nos. 4-10, September 1, 1941-March 1, 1943, with supplements to the

List. The main purpose of the British MEW “G” List was to indicate to censorship, import, export,

contraband, and other controls that transactions in which a name on the List was concerned

required special watching. A Ships “G” List formed an annex to this list and its supplements. The

MEW., which issued both the MEW “G” List and the Ships “G” Lists, announced on May 31,

1943, that it was discontinuing them because developments in economic warfare had rendered

such lists less useful.

Boxes 6-7 location: 250/67/30/07

Canadian Lists of Specified Persons 1940-1945 (Entry 40)

Arranged chronologically. File copies of the Consolidations of the Lists of Specified

Persons, 1940-1945, and of Revisions Nos. 9-62 of the Lists, March 24, 1941-November 29, 1945.

 The Lists of Specified Persons contained the names of all persons residing and/or carrying on

business in neutral countries with whom persons in Canada were prohibited from trading under the

Consolidated Regulations Respecting Trading with the Enemy, 1939.

Boxes 7-8 location: 250/67/30/07

Proclaimed Lists of Various Countries 1941-1944 (Entry 41)

Unarranged. File copies of individual editions of the Proclaimed Lists of Australia, the

Netherlands, Venezuela, El Salvador, Chile, France, and Brazil.

Box 8 location: 250/67/30/07

 

144 A section of the Intelligence Division (MEW) was responsible for collecting evidence about firms and

individuals suspected to have dealings with the enemy with a view to their being placed on the Statutory List or

Black List. British firms were prohibited by the Trading with the Enemy Act operated by the Board of Trade and the

Treasury from dealing with such firms and the lists were also used as evidence by the Contraband and Enemy

Exports Committee. The placing of names on the lists was under the control of the Black List Committee which

included representatives of the Admiralty, the Ministry of Shipping and, later on, of the United States.
144

Miscellaneous Materials Relating to Black Lists 1941-1945 (Entry 42)

Unarranged. Lists compiled by the British Ministry of Economic Warfare of undesirable

or suspect seamen, 1943-1945; a copy of “The Federal Register,” Vol. 8, No. 12, containing

regulations governing the allocation of various scarce materials; and lists of Latin American firms

that were aiding or had dealt with the enemy, prepared by the Treasury Department in July 1941.

Box 8 location: 250/67/30/07

Materials Relating to Distribution of the Proclaimed List 1941-1946 (Entry 44)

Arranged chronologically. Lists of those to whom the proclaimed List was sent,

instructions to recipients for reporting on persons and firms whose names should be considered

for inclusion in the List, examples of such reports, requests for copies of the List, and memoranda

relative to List distribution.

Boxes 9-10 location: 250/67/30/07

Case Files 1941-1946 (Entry 45)

Arranged by the List, supplement, revision, or supplement to the revision under which the

case was considered; thereunder chronologically; thereunder alphabetically by country; and

thereunder alphabetically by surname of firm name. The case files consist of summaries of the

information available on individuals and firms being considered for inclusion in the Proclaimed

List and of the decisions made in each case.

Boxes 10-61 location: 250/67/31/01

Records of Actions taken by the Proclaimed List Committee 1941-1946 (Entry 46)

Arranged by the List, supplement, revision, or supplement to the revision under which the

case was considered; thereunder chronologically; thereunder alphabetically by country; and

thereunder alphabetically by surname of firm name. Records of the actions taken by the

Proclaimed List Committee with regard to each case that it considered. The records consist of lists

of individuals and firms whose names were to be added to, deleted from, or subsequently

considered (action pending) for inclusion in the Proclaimed List.

Boxes 62-65 location: 250/67/32/01

Memoranda for the Committee 1941-1946 (Entry 47)

Arranged chronologically and thereunder alphabetically by country. These materials

primarily consist of memoranda detailing special circumstances affecting the cases of individuals

and firms whose names were considered for inclusion in The Proclaimed List, its supplements,

revisions, and supplements to revisions; procedures to be followed in compiling revisions and

supplements; instructions on reporting information regarding cases before the Proclaimed List

Committee; and other matters relating to the Committee’s work.

Boxes 66-69 location: 250/67/32/02

Working Papers Relating to the “Hard Core” List 1945-1946 (Entry 48)

Some arranged chronologically, some alphabetically by country. These materials consist

of memoranda setting forth the principles for inclusion of the names of individuals or firms whose

activities had placed them among the “hard core” of enemy sympathizers or supporters in their

countries of residence on the later revisions and revision supplements of the Proclaimed List, and

of lists of names of those who qualify, do not qualify, or required further investigation before a

decision could be made, for the “hard core” List.
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Boxes 69-72 location: 250/67/32/02

Miscellaneous Reports 1941-1946 (Entry 49)

Some arranged chronologically, some alphabetically; others unarranged. These materials

consist of press releases relative to the activities of the Division of World Trade Intelligence, 1943-

1946; recommendations for actions in cases under consideration by the Proclaimed List

Committee; miscellaneous instructions and procedures; and notes on indexing.

Boxes 73-74 location: 250/67/32/03

Index to Lists of Blocked Nationals 1941-1946 (Entry 50)

Arranged alphabetically by country, thereunder alphabetically by surname or firm name,

with subdivisions for names deleted from the List and names on the British Statutory List but not

on the Proclaimed List. The card file consists of 5 x 8 inch index card containing names,

addresses, information as to why the name was on the List, and references to related names and/or

cases.

Boxes 1-21 location: 250/67/32/03.

Boxes 19-20 contains Blocked Swiss Nationals

Records of the State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee

The State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee (SWNCC/SANAC) was established in December 1944, to

coordinate the views of the State, War, and Navy Departments in matters in which they all had a common

interest, and to establish policies for their Departments on politico-military questions referred to it. The

Committee maintained liaison with the Joint Chiefs of Staff in order to obtain military approval for its

decisions. Among its activities the Committee drafted directives for the control of Germany and Austria

and coordinated the views of its member agencies on policy for presentation by the United States at

international conferences. From the fall of 1947 until its termination in June 1949, the Committee was

named the State-Army-Navy-Air Force Coordinating Committee.

SWNCC 10 Swiss Aid to Italy and Germany January 1945

LM 54 roll 1, frames 845-860

SWNCC 204. Restitution from Austria and Germany to Allies, October 1945-September 1948

LM 54, roll 17, frames 530-1122.

SWNCC 328. Concepts of War Booty, Restitution, and Reparations,

September 1946-February 1948. LM 54, roll 27, frames 1122-1303.

SWNCC 336. Definition of Non-Monetary Gold Under Paris Reparations Agreement of 1946,

October 1946-January 1949. LM 54, roll 28, frames 418-452.

Records of the American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic

Monuments in War Areas (RG 239)

The American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War

Areas, also known as the Roberts Commission, was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on

June 23, 1943, when he appointed Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts to chair the Commission. The

Commission cooperated with the U.S. Army in protecting cultural treasures and gathered information

about war damage to such treasurers, and compiled data on cultural property appropriated by the Axis

Powers and encouraged is restitution. It was abolished on June 30, 1946. Researchers interested in matters

relating to art/cultural restitution matters will find many useful documents in this Record Group. There

detailed finding aids for these records in the consultation area in Room 2600.
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GOVERNMENT PRINTED SOURCES

American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas. 

Report of the American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in

War Areas. Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.

Foreign Relations of the United States [a publication of the State Department that serves as a key finding

aid because the documents selected for printing include the source file designation.]

FRUS, 1944, Vol. II, pp. 1031-1068 “Interest of the United States in measures for the protection and

salvage of artistic and historic monuments in war areas.”

FRUS, 1945, Vol. II, pp. 933-957 “Interest of the United States in measures for the protection and salvage

of artistic and historic monuments in war areas.”

RECORDS

Reports 1944-1946 (Entry 6)

Box 9 folder “Looting Misc” contains news accounts on gold found in

Germany and related matters. location: 350/76/35/06

Correspondence 1943-1946 (Entry 7)

Box 13 folder “Axis Victims League, Inc.” location: 350/76/35/07

General Records 1943-1946 (Entry 10)

Box 24 two folders entitled “German Economic Penetration in Switzerland” includes

a printed copy of circa 1945 Department of State Study [by Nicholas R. Milroy]

entitled “German Economic Penetration in Switzerland.” location: 350/77/1/02

London Files 1943-1945 (entry 12)

Box 37 folder “London File: Restitution Background Material” contains records of

the Axis Victims League, Inc. location: 350/77/1/04

Records Relating to Restitution of Cultural Materials 1943-1946 (Entry 14)

Box 40 folder “United Nations Declaration (Looting of Property by Axis)

[1943] location: 350/77/1/04

Miscellaneous Records 1944-1945 (Entry 23)

Box 49 folder “Safehaven Project-Basic Description” location 350/77/1/05

Subject File (Entry 73)

Box 82 folders entitled “Looting-Switzerland,” “Swiss Reports,” “Western

Hemisphere-Study,” and “Western Hemisphere-FBI Reports.” location: 350/77/2/07

Records of the Foreign Economic Administration (RG 169)

Records of the Board of Economic Warfare (1941-1943)

On December 17, 1941, the Economic Defense Board became, by a change of name, the Board of

Economic Warfare. For about four months thereafter there were no major changes in the functions and no

significant changes in administrative organization. By an Executive order of April 13, 1942, however, the

Board’s powers. which hitherto had been limited chiefly to the control of exports, were significantly

increased by giving to the Board a large measure of control over imports. It was also directed to “represent

the United States Government in dealing with the economic warfare agencies of the United Nations for the
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purpose of relating the Government’s economic warfare program and facilities regarding the importation of

strategic and critical materials.

As a result of the Executive order the Board was reorganized, and to the existing membership of the Board

proper, presided over by the Vice President of the United States, Henry A. Wallace, there were added the

Chairman of the War Production Board and the Administrator of the Office of Lend-Lease Administration.

 The Offices of Exports, Imports, Economic Warfare Analysis, the General Counsel, and Administrative

Management, established at that time, remained in existence during the life of the agency, although the

branches and divisions of the offices underwent a number of changes.

By an Executive order of July 15, 1943, the Board of Economic Warfare was terminated and its functions,

personnel, and records were transferred to the Office of Economic Warfare (OEW). The various

centralized and decentralized files of the Board, which were taken over and maintained practically intact by

the OEW, were later distributed to various units of the Foreign Economic Administration.

General Records

Classified Subject File July 1940-June 1942 (Entry 97)

Records of the Board of Economic Warfare and of its predecessors, the Economic Defense

Board and the Office of the Administrator of Export Control, consisting mainly of copies of letters,

memoranduma, reports, minutes of meetings of committees, and other materials relating to all

phases of export control and economic warfare and to the organization, administration, policies,

and procedures of the agencies. The records are arranged in accordance with a subject-numeric

classification system. Please consult the finding aids in the consultation area in Room 2600 for

information regarding the classification system.

Boxes 1-247 location: 570/56/6/01

Geographic Central File July 1940-June 1942 (Entry 98)

Letters and memoranda, mainly copies. relating to export control matters involving

specific countries and covering subjects similar to those described in the previous entry. The

records are arranged alphabetically by country and thereunder by the same subject-numeric system

used in the Classified Subject Central File.

Boxes 248-293 location: 570/56/11/01

Records of the Office of Economic Warfare (1943)

By an Executive order of July 15, 943, the Office of Economic Warfare, headed by a Director, Leo T.

Crowley, was established in the Office of Emergency Management. To it were transferred the functions,

personnel, and records of the Board of Economic Warfare, which was abolished by the order. The Office

of Economic Warfare was in existence for only about six weeks. Its functions and administrative

organization were substantially those of its predecessors. By an Executive order of September 25, 1943,

the Office of Economic Warfare and certain other agencies, together with their personnel and records, were

transferred to and consolidated in the Foreign Economic Administration (FEA), which was established by

that order. The records of the Office were later absorbed into the records of various units of the FEA.

Records of the Foreign Economic Administration (1943-1945)

In order to unify and consolidate the administration of governmental activities relating to foreign economic

affairs, the Foreign Economic Administration (FEA), was established by an Executive order of September

25, 1943. The functions, personnel, and records of the office of Lend-Lease Administration, the Office of

Economic Warfare, the Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations of the Department of State,

and the foreign economic operations of the Office of Foreign Economic Coordination of the Department of

State were transferred to the FEA. 
148

The FEA was responsible for the wartime functions of export control, foreign procurement, lend-lease,

reverse lend-lease, participation in foreign relief and rehabilitation, and economic warfare, including

foreign economic intelligence. By an Executive order of September 27, 1945, the FEA was abolished and

its remaining functions were divided among five agencies, including the Departments of State and

Commerce.

Records of the Office of the Administrator

This Office included the Administrator, Leo T. Crowley, his immediate assistants, and six

planning and administrative offices.

General Records

Subject File of the Administrator, January 1942-October 1945 (Entry 128)

Correspondence of Leo T. Crowley, FEA Administrator, and of Milo Perkins, Executive

Director of the Board of Economic Warfare and Office of Economic Warfare, with members of

Congress, other Government agencies, private industry, and the general public regarding policy

matters in connection with the administration and operations of the above-mentioned agencies,

cooperation with other Government agencies on foreign economic operations, legislation, and

other matters requiring the attention of the Administrator (or his predecessor). One part of this

file, covering the period January 1941-July 1944, is arranged according to a modified Dewey

decimal classification scheme. The second part of the file, covering the period August 1944-

October 1945, is arranged according to a subject-numeric classification scheme. This scheme is

outlined in a binder in the consultation area in Room 2600.

Boxes 1-77 location: 570/56/19/04

Box # File Title or Subject

1 Inter-American Affairs, Coordinator of (1941-1942)

Joint Combined Chiefs of Staff (1942-1943)

North Africa Economic Board (Aug. 27, 1943)

State Department (1943-1944)

State Dept.-Office of Economic Coordination, Foreign

(O.F.E.C.) (1942-1943)

U.S. Commercial Company (1943-1944)

War Department (1943); location: 570/56/19/04

2 Censorship, Office of (1942-1943)

Combined Chiefs of Staff (1942-1943)

Commerce Department (Foreign and Domestic Commerce)

(1941-1943)

Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (1941-1944)

Justice Department (1941, 1943-1944)

Justice Department (Anti-Trust Division) (March 1942)

Justice Department (Federal Bureau of Investigation) (January

and March 1943)

State Department (1941-1944)

State Department-Office of Foreign Economic Coordination

(September-October 1943)

Treasury Department (Foreign Funds Control) (June 20, 1942)

War Department-Combined Civil Affairs Committee (n.d.)

War Information, Office of (1942-1944) location: 570/56/19/04

3 Justice Department (Federal Bureau of Investigation) (December
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3, 1942)

Criticism and Complaints- B.E.W. (1942-1944)

EOP-Office of War Information (1942-1944)

White House (Harry Hopkins) (1941-1943) location:

570/56/19/04

4 Board of Economic Warfare Board Meetings; Minutes and other

files (1941-1943) location: 570/56/19/04

9 Missions-Censorship Intercepts for Missions (June-October

1943) location: 570/56/19/05

11 Office of Economic Warfare (July-October 1943)

Board of Economic Warfare-Sub-Committee (1941-1943)

Foreign Economic Administration - Organization (1942-1944)

Bureau of Areas (1943-1944)

Historian (1942-1944)

Economic Warfare Analysis (1942-1943)

Executive Director (1943); location: 570/56/19/05

12 Commmittees (1941-1944)

Minutes-Office of Economic Warfare Analysis (May-June 1942);

location: 570/56/19/05

13 Minutes-Meetings in Office of Stettinius (April-July 1942)

State Department (1942-1943) location: 570/56/19/05

14 Procedures and Instructions (1941-1944)

Directives (1943-1944)

Copies of BEW Directives (1941-1942)

Copies of BEW Orders (1942-1943)

Licensing Procedures (1942-1943) location: 570/56/19/05

23 Reports-Progress (General) (1943-1944)

Reports-Miscellaneous (1941-1944) location: 570/56/19/07

24 Report of the American Hemisphere Division-BEW (March

1942) location: 570/56/19/07

25 Cartels (1942-1944)

U.S. Commercial Company (1943-1944) location: 570/56/19/07

26 Preclusive Operations Division-Economic Warfare Deals (June

18, 1943) location: 570/56/19/07

27 Censorship (1942-1944)

Censorship Intercepts-Press (1942-1944)

Politics and Propaganda (1942-1944) location: 570/56/19/07

29 Treasury Department (May 23, 1942)

Vice President Henry A Wallace (1942-1943)

White House; Wheeler, Senator B.K. (1941 & 1943) location:

570/56/20/01

32 Blockade Systems (1942-1943)

Navicerts145 (1942-1943)

 

145 British Missions in December 1939 began issuing navicerts, i.e., a certificate of destination for specified

cargos, which would speed those cargos through contraband control. Initially, the Missions issued the navicert either

on their own responsibility or after reference to the Ministry of Economic Warfare (MEW). Where all the cargo in a

ship was covered by navicerts the ship could be given a navicert of its own. After the fall of France when the rigor

of the blockade was greatly increased the navicert procedure was made compulsory and all un-navicerted cargo was

liable to be regarded as destined for the enemy. All applications had to be referred to the MEW. At the same time
150

Export Trade Control (1941-1944)

General Licenses (October 13, 1943)

Black Lists (1941-1942)

Blocked Nationals (1942)

Watch Lists (June 2, 1943) location: 570/56/20/01

33 Preclusive Buying and Procurement Contracts (1941-1944)

location: 570/56/20/01

40 Censorship (1944-1945)

Censorship-Intercepts (1944-1945)

Combined Civil Affairs Committee (1944-1945)

location: 570/56/20/02

41-46 Contain records relating to the Excutive Policy Committee and

the Executive Policy Committee on Economic Foreign Policy

(1944-1945) location: 570/56/20/02

47 Committee-Joint Intelligence Committee (1944-1945); Has

minor mention of Switzerland being dependant on German trade.

location: 570/56/20/03

48-49 Contain records relating to various Liberated Areas committees

(1944-1945) location: 570/56/20/03

51-52 Contain information on the U.S. Commercial Company (1944-

1945) location: 570/56/20/04

57 Contains records relating to the cooperation between the FEA

and the Navy Department, State Department, War Department,

and other agencies. location: 570/56/20/05

62 Finance, Public-Banks and Banking (1944)

Finance, Public-Safehaven. (1944-1945) This file contains

information on the organizing and running the Safehaven

program. location: 570/56/20/05

65 Organization-Foreign Economic Administration (1943-1945)

Organization-FEA-Economic Intelligence (September -October

1944) location: 570/56/20/06

66 Personnel-Klaus, Samuel146 (July-August 1944) location:

570/56/20/06

71 Reports-Bureau of Areas (1944-1945)

Reports-Enemy Branch-The Procurement of Economic

Information for Strategic Purposes (1942-1944)

Reports-Liberated Areas (December 20, 1944)

location: 570/56/20/07

72 Reports-U.S. Commercial Company (1944-1945)

Reports-War Department (October 1943)

Reports-Overall FEA Reports (1944-1945)

Reports-Overall FEA Reports (September 1944)

Reports-Special Areas (February-June 1944)

location: 570/56/20/07

 

the ship warrant scheme was introduced in conjunction with the Ministry of Shipping, whereby only those neutral

shipowners who had given satisfactory evidence as to the employment of their vessels would be given access to

British insurance, stores, repairs, and other facilities.

146 Department of Treasury attorney. In l944 Klaus was borrowed by the FEA from Treasury, and by

January 1945 was Assistant General Counsel, FEA, assigned to the Special Areas Branch.
151

75 Trade-Blockade Systems (June 1944)

Trade-Cartels and Monopolies (1944-1945) location:

570/56/20/07

76 Trade Export-Blocked Nationals (1944)

Trade Export-Black Lists (1944-1945) location: 570/56/20/07

Geographic File of the Administrator January 1942-October 1945 (Entry 129)

Correspondence, mainly of Milo Perkins, Executive Director of the Board of Economic

Warfare and the Office of Economic Warfare, and of Leo T. Crowley, FEA Administrator, with

other Government agencies, representatives of the Administration abroad, and foreign missions in

the United States, together with memoranda, reports, and other papers. The records relate in large

part to policies of the FEA and its predecessors with respect to commodity requirements, supplies,

requisitioning, transportation problems, surplus property disposal, and other economic matters as

they concerned various foreign countries. That part of the file for the period January 1942-July

1944 is arranged alphabetically by geographic area or country and thereunder in accordance with a

decimal classification system. The second part of the file, for the period August 1944-October

1945, is arranged alphabetically by geographic area or country and thereunder alphabetically by

subject.

Boxes 1-28

Box # Country and/or Subject

1 Africa location: 570/56/21/01

2 location: 570/56/21/01

3 location: 570/56/21/01

8 European Neutrals

Germany location: 570/56/21/02

9 Iberian Peninsula location: 570/56/21/02

10 Italy

Latin America

Liberated Areas

location: 570/56/21/02

12 Portugal location: 570/56/21/02

13 Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Turkey

location: 570/56/21/02

15 Africa

Argentina

location: 570/56/21/03

18 European Neutrals location: 570/56/21/03

20 Germany location: 570/56/21/03

21-22 Italy location: 570/56/21/03

22 Liberated Areas; location: 570/56/21/04

24 Portugal location: 570/56/21/04

25 Spain

25-26 Sweden location: 570/56/21/04

26 Switzerland

Turkey 
152

location: 570/56/21/04

General Letters Sent 1942-1945 (Entry 130)

Boxes 1-16 location: 570/56/21/05

Letters to Field Representatives in Foreign Countries 1942-1945 (Entry 131)

Boxes 1-3 location: 570/56/21/07

Intraoffice and Interoffice Letters and Memoranda Sent January 1944-October 1945

 (Entry 132)

Boxes 1-2 location: 570/56/21/07

Intra-Agency Memoranda Sent October 1941-December 1943 (Entry 133)

Boxes 1-2 location: 570/56/22/01

Letters Sent to Other Government Agencies March 1942-October 1945 (Entry 134)

Boxes 1-10

Box # Agency

1 Alien Property Custodian

American Embassies; location: 570/56/22/01

2 Censorship, Office of

Combined Chiefs of Staff & Joint Chiefs of Staff

Commerce Department; location: 570/56/22/01

3 Commerce Department

Federal Reserve System, Board of Governors location:

570/56/22/01

4 Inter-American Affairs, Coordinator of

Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S.

Justice Department; location: 570/56/22/01

5 Navy Department; location: 570/56/22/01

6 Reparations Committee-Allied on

Securities and Exchange Commission

6-7 State Department; location: 570/56/22/02

7 Strategic Services, Office of

Treasury Department location: 570/56/22/02

8 Vice President, Office of

War Department; location: 570/56/22/02

9 War Information, Office of location: 570/56/22/02

10 White House; location: 570/56/22/02

Records of the Office of the Budget and Administrative Planning

Records of the Records Analysis Division

The Records Analysis Division was established in December 1943 to be responsible for

the preparation of a history or histories of the FEA. It took over and continued historical activities

that had been begun as early as 1942 in both the Office of Lend-Lease Administration and the

Board of Economic Warfare.

File of William Lonsdale Taylor, Chief 1943-1946 (Entry 143)

File of the Historian of the Board of Economic Warfare, the Office of Economic Warfare,

and the FEA and Chief of the Records Analysis Division. Consists of correspondence,
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memoranda, progress reports, organizational charts, and administrative issuances dealing with the

work and personnel of the Division, the organization of chapters of the history, requests for copies

of records from FEA files, history committees, and related subjects. Arranged in part by subject,

and in part chronologically by date of document.

Boxes 1-6 location: 570/56/22/02

Historian’s Reports of Interviews 1943-1945 (Entry 144)

Boxes 1-2 location: 570/56/22/03

Monographs

Historical Monographs Prepared by the Division 1940-1946 (Entry 145)

Typewritten copies of monographs on the organization and operations of the FEA and its

predecessor agencies, which were prepared by the staff of the Records Analysis Division. Some of

the monographs are bound with supporting papers, consisting of copies of FEA records. 

Unarranged.

Boxes 1-21 location: 570/56/22/03

Historical Monographs Prepared Outside the Division 1940-1946 (Entry 146)

Boxes 1-6 location: 570/56/22/06

Box # Monograph Title

1 Argentina-Policy of OEW Toward, July 1943

Blockade-British-American Black List Committee, December 15,

1942

Blockade-Blacklisting-Use and Administration, March 26, 1941

Blockade, Bargains and Bluff, n.d.

Blockade Division, History of, January 25, 1945

Blockade Division, Operations of, September 14, 1943

Blockade Division, Enforcement Section, History of, 1944-1945

BEW-Economic War Fare - British Experience by Military

Intelligence Division, July 17,1941

BEW-A Functional Summary of Divisions and Committees,

February 1942

BEW-Preliminary Statement of General Objectives and Operating

Organization, May 15, 1945

2 Economic Warfare Analysis, 1943

Directives Issued by BEW, 1942-1943

Enemy Branch, Statement of Activities of the, October 15, 1945

Economic Foreign Policy Executive Committee, Report of the

Activities of, September 1, 1944

European Axis Section and the European Division, August 1, 1942-

december 31, 1944

Foreign Economic Administration Relations with Army, n.d.

3 Italy-FEA Participation in the Allied Control Commission, n.d.

Italy-Allied Control Commission, n.d.

4 Liberated Areas, 1943-1944

Liberated Areas, Materials re, September 1945

Mission for Economic Affairs, American Embassy, London,

November 30, 1944
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Mission for Economic Affairs (London), January 27, 1944

Organizational Handbook, Board of Economic Warfare, January

1943

5 Procurement of Economic Information for Strategic Purposes, May

1945

Preclusive Operations in the Neutral Countries in World War II, n.d.

Relationship of FEA to Other Federal Agencies, June 18, 1945

Relationship of BEW-FEA with Other Agencies, December 23, 1942

South American Blockade, 1943

Survey of Organization and Operations, Mission for Economic

Affairs, American Embassy, London, by Bureau of the Budget

Mission, American Embassy, London, November 30, 1944

6 Swiss Negotiations, History of, May 3, 1945

Swiss Negotiations, Survey of, September 13, 1943

United States Commercial Corporation-Its Organization, Operations

and Objectives, June 24, 1944

White Paper - History of the Administration of the British White

Paper, December 8, 1944

Functions of the Economic Warfare Division of the American

Embassy, London, October 15, 1943

Records Assembled by the Historian

Reports on the Organization of the Division of Controls July-August 1941 (Entry 148)

Box 1 location: 570/56/23/01

Historical File on the Office of Economic Warfare and Predecessor Agencies 1941-1943

(Entry 150)

Among the folder headings included in this series: Argentina; Blockade; Board of

Economic Warfare; British Empire; Intelligence (history); Office of Censorship; Office of

Economic Warfare Analysis; Office of War Information; Policy Committee; State Department;

and, Treasury.

Boxes 1-9 location: 570/56/23/01

Historical File on the Foreign Economic Administration 1943-1945 (Entry 151)

Among the folder headings included in this series: Argentina; Board of Economic

Warfare; Bretton Wood Meeting; British Empire and United Kingdom; Cartels; Commerce

Department; Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; Europe’s monetary situation; Foreign

Economic Administration (numerous folders); Germany (General objectives of U.S. economic

policy); Portugal; Spain; State Department; Sweden; Switzerland; and, Turkey.

Boxes 906-919E location: 570/56/23/03

Administrative Issuances of the Economic Defense Board, the Board of Economic Warfare,

and the Office of Economic Warfare, September 1941-November 30, 1943 (Entry 153)

Boxes 920-929 location: 570/56/23/06

FEA Administrative Issuances December 1943-October 1945 (Entry 154)

Boxes 930-930C location: 570/56/24/01

Budget Materials 1941-1946 (Entry 155)
155

Boxes 931-947A location: 570/56/24/01

Minutes of Meetings of the Board of Economic Warfare August 13, 1941-July 15, 1943

 (Entry 156)

Box 948 location: 570/56/24/04

Research Reports and Studies 1942-1944 (Entry 157)

Research reports and studies of various divisions of the FEA and predecessor agencies on

such subjects as the economy of enemy, neutral, and allied countries, possibilities of and programs

for the development and procurement of strategic commodities, problems of occupation, and

enemy methods of occupation, together with miscellaneous reports on sources of economic

intelligence and other subjects of interest to the Board of Economic Warfare, the Office of

Economic Warfare, and the FEA. Arranged by division symbol and thereunder numerically.

Boxes 1-27 location: 570/56/24/04

Economic Warfare Studies of the Army Industrial College 1940-1941 (Entry 158)

Boxes 936-964A location: 570/56/25/01

Records Pertaining to Foreign Economic Administration’s Relations with France 1943-1945

(Entry 160)

Boxes 969-975 location: 570/56/25/02

Cables of the Combined Committee for French North and West African Civil Affairs 1943-1944

(Entry 161)

Box 976 location: 570/56/25/03

Minutes of Meetings of French North African Committees 1943-1945 (Entry 162)

Box 977 location: 570/56/25/03

“Brief Historical Statement of Foreign Economic Administration” 1943-1944 (Entry 163)

Boxes 978-979 location: 570/56/25/03

Foreign Projects Reports January 1943-December 15, 1943 (Entry 167)

Processed copies of periodic reports on foreign projects of the Board of Economic Warfare

and the FEA, prepared by the Office of Administrative Management. They contain information

concerning the country involved, the Board of Economic Warfare’s or FEA’s representative, the

status of the project, its sponsor, the assignment of the project, and the approximate period of time

assigned it. Arranged chronologically.

Box 983C location: 570/56/25/05

Records Relating to the Bureau of Areas and the Bureau of Supplies 1944-1945

(Entry 168)

Boxes 984-988 location: 570/56/25/05

Records of the Office of the General Counsel 1942-1943 (Entry 169)

Boxes 989-990 location: 570/56/25/05

Material on the “SAFE HAVEN Project” 1943-1945 (Entry 170)

Boxes 991-993 location: 570/56/25/06
156

Includes in Box 991 a “Safehaven Study” by Margaret Clarke, n.d., 193pp.

Economic Program Policy Statements 1944-1945 (Entry 172)

Set of processed issuances of the FEA headed “Economic Program with Reference to

[various countries of the world].” and supplements thereto. This set of program issuances was

compiled by the historian’s staff. Arranged by country under two major headings, Economic

Programs and Supplements. 

Boxes 1-2 location: 570/56/25/07

Progress Reports of FEA Special Representatives and Missions 1943-1944 (Entry 173)

Typed copies of progress reports from FEA special representatives and missions in foreign

countries, which were assembled by the Historian and his staff. Arranged alphabetically by

country and thereunder chronologically.

Boxes 1-7 location: 570/56/26/01

Intelligence Memoranda of the Italian Division 1944-1945 (Entry 179)

Boxes 1-3 location: 570/56/26/04

Weekly Operations Reports of the Office of Economic Warfare August 1941-November 1943

(Entry 180)

Boxes 1-2 location: 570/56/26/05

Weekly Notes on Current Economic Information 1942-1944 (Entry 182)

Box 1 location: 570/56/26/05

Addresses and Statements of BEW and FEA Officials 1942-1946 (Entry 185)

Box 1 location: 570/56/26/06

Records of the Office of Economic Programs

The Office of Economic Programs (OEP) was established on September 13, 1943. It included specialized

staffs of advisers who assisted the Administrator and other high officials of the agency in preparing foreign

economic policies and programs. The Office represented a consolidation of the War Trade Staff of the

Office of Economic Warfare and the Government Liaison and Reciprocal Aid Division of the Office of

Lend-Lease Administration. The Office, whose chief was an Assistant FEA Administrator,147 was largely

composed of personnel consisting of economists who served as consultants on such diverse matters as

supplies and resources, foreign development, foreign finance, trade policy, and lend lease. 

The OEP acted as the integrating unit for the operational branches within FEA whose own projects had to

be brought into harmony with the central policies of the Administration. Operational approaches within

the framework of FEA were often dissimilar and even in cases, where objectives were not identical in

practice, conflicting. OEP had to keep differences in mind and attempt to solve them. Operations

personnel, enthusiastic about their programs and bent on achieving their ends quickly and efficiently, had

to be reminded of political considerations. It was a primary function of the OEP to conciliate differences

and keep the strategy of economic warfare to a consistent pattern.

 

147 The first head of the Office of Economic Programs was V. Frank Coe. When he resigned from FEA to

take a position in the Office of Monetary Research in the Department of the Treasury, James W. Angell replaced

him. 
157

In 1944 through V. Frank Coe and L. Currie, the OEP was brought directly and originally into the

Safehaven program. It was in OEP, under Coe that the Executive Committee on Economic Foreign Policy

(ECEFP) was established. An interdepartmental unit, maintained by Angell after Coe left FEA, the

ECEFP, animated by OEP, studied isues involved in economic warfare, anticipated the economic programs

connected with Germany in the postwar period, and took steps to initiate plans which would operated

effectively after the defeat of the Axis.

Since the OEP had, throughout the period of its existence kept in touch with the work of other departments

also concerned with economic warfare, and since it maintained close contact with the Department of

Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board, it had already had, before the Safehaven program was organized,

practical experience with some of the aspects of German penetration. Advising on commodity agreements

and studying the cartel and combine methods of German industry, it had also a background of practical

knowledge of what the pattern of Geman post-hostilities aggression was likely to be.

The Executive Committee on Economic Foreign Policy (ECEFP), guided largely by OEP, had considered

from time to time such matters as modification of wartime financial controls over foreign assets. It had, for

example, considered the possibility of continuing the Proclaimed List after the surrender of Germany as a

method of economic supervision of Axis friends.

With the development of the Safehaven Program idea, the ECEP took over serious study of the matter of

controlling enmy assets after the war. Out of this consideration a new committee, the Interdepartmental

Committee on Post-Hostilities Controls over Foreign Property was organized. Its membership was

composed of representatives from the Departments of State, Treasury, Justice, Commerce, and the Alien

Property Custodian, the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, and the FEA. The committee studied,

considered, and made recommendations with respect to wartime property and financial controls over

foreign assets. It was also made recommendations on the control and disposition of enemy assets in neutral

and other non-Axis countries.

The thought was that many departments and agencies were involved in these problems and that the

Committee would be a clearing house for the problems as they were defined and for the various

departmental proposals as they were worked out. So far as the Safehaven Program was concerned, the

Committee would coordinate recommendations regarding programs for dealing with Germany’s hidden

assets and with its devices of economic penetration. It would also consider policies with respect to United

States, and United Nations’ attitudes towards neutrals used by the Germans for purposes of economic

expansion.

During 1944 the Executive Policy Committee, FEA, met regularly and consistently studied Safehaven

problems. Through its relationships with other Departments it brought the FEA attitude toward control of

Germany into focus, and through the FEA Administration and its legal advisors pressed for

implementation of a strong United States policy toward neutrals with respect to the problem of postwar

German penetration. Its policies and views were submitted to the Interdepartmental Committee on PostHostilities Controls over Foreign Property for critical consideration.

Central Files February 1942-October 1945 (Entry 200)

Boxes 1-19

Box # File Title

9 Finance, Public-1-1 Foreign Funds Control

10 Finance, Public-11-1 Safehaven location: 570/57/4/05

Geographic Central Files 1943-1945 (Entry 201)

Boxes 1-6

Box # Country and/or Subject
158

1 Africa

American Republics

Argentina; location: 570/57/4/06

3 Germany; location: 570/57/4/07

4 Italy

Latin America

Liberated Areas; location: 570/57/4/07

5 North Africa

Portugal; location: 570/57/4/07

6 Spain

Sweden

Turkey

West Africa; location: 570/57/4/07

Interoffice Memoranda and Letters Sent (Addressee File) November 1943-October 1945

(Entry 202)

Boxes 1-4 location: 570/57/4/07

Reading File of Interoffice Memoranda December 1943-August 1945 (Entry 203)

Box 1 location: 570/57/5/01

Reading File of Interoffice and Intraoffice Memoranda December 1943-August 1945

(Entry 204)

Box 1 location: 570/57/5/01

Records of the Business Organization Staff

Miscellaneous Records Relating to Monopolies and Cartels April 1942-October 1945

(Entry 210)

Box # File Title

8 Argentina, 1943; location: 570/67/5/04

14 Flight of Axis Capital to Switzerland, Spain, and Argentina, 1945

location: 570/57/5/05

24 Swiss Bank, 1944-1945 location: 570/57/5/06

25 Swiss Foreign Trade, 1944 location: 570/57/5/07

Records Relating to Svenska Kullager Fabriken (SKF)148 March 1942-January 1945

 (Entry 211)

Boxes 1-3 location: 570/57/5/07

Records of the Foreign Economic Development Staff

Reports on Foreign Economic Conditions (Subject Files) March 1942-April 1945

(Entry 212)

Boxes 1117-1118 location: 570/57/5/07

 

148 Owned by Sweden’s Stockholm Enskilda Bank. SKF, with its subsidiaries, was the largest manufacturer

of bearings on earth. It controlled 80 percent of blast furnances, foundries and factories and plants in the United

States, Great Britain, France, and Germany. The largest share of its production until late in World War II was

allocated to Germany; 60 percent of the worldwide production of SKF was dedicated to the Germans.
159

Reports on Foreign Economic Conditions (Geographic File) 1942-1945 (Entry 213)

Boxes 1119-1121 location: 570/567/6/01

Records of the Lend-Lease and Foreign Finance Staffs

General File 1943-1945 (Entry 215)

Boxes 1134-1135

Box # File Title

1134 Germany-Policy Documents

Germany-Secret Material

1135 Gold

Latin America

Liberated Areas

Special Watch Instructions (SWI) Office of

Censorship

location: 570/57/6/03

Informational Materials on Foreign Financial Conditions and Developments 1943-1945

(Entry 216)

Boxes 1136-1137

Box # Country and/or Subject

1136 Africa, French North

Enemy Branch

Enemy Branch - Staff Meetings

Enemy Branch - TIDC (Technical Industrial Disarmament

Committee)

Germany- Charts (1938)

1137 Italy

Latin America

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Turkey location: 570/57/6/03

Records of the Programs and Reports Staff

General Subject File of the Director 1944-1945 (Entry 217)

Boxes 1138-1141 location: 570/57/6/03

Records of the Office of the General Counsel

The various legal offices of the agencies absorbed by the FEA became part of the Office

of the General Counsel. In addition to its legal functions the Office coordinated liaison activities

with Congress. 

Central File November 1943-September 1945 (Entry 231)

Boxes 1158-1168 location: 570/57/6/06

Subject File of the General Counsel 1941-1945 (Entry 237)

Boxes 1169-1175 location: 570/57/7/01
160

File of the Assistant General Counsel, Special and Pan-American Branch November 1941-

June 1944 (Entry 238)

Boxes 1186-1187 location: 570/57/7/04

File of the Consultant on International law January 1943-August 1944 (Entry 243)

Boxes 1196-1197 location: 570/57/7/05

Records of the Bureau of Areas

The Bureau of Areas was established on November 13, 1943, by a consolidation of those units of the

predecessors of the Foreign Economic Administration that were not assigned to the Bureau of Supplies or

to the Office of the Administrator. The units of the Office of Economic Warfare that were transferred to

the Bureau of Areas included the area divisions of the Country programs Branch of the Office of Exports;

the Area Branch, excluding the South Pacific Division, of the Office of Imports; and the Enemy and the

Blockade and Supply Branches of the Office of Economic Warfare and Analysis. From the Office of

Lend-Lease Administration the Bureau received the geographic divisions of the Office of Foreign Liaison,

the Office of Soviet Supply, and the Overseas Missions Divisions; and from the Office of Foreign Relief

and Rehabilitation Operations there were transferred to the Bureau the Divisions of Field Operations,

Supply and Transport, Progress Reports, and Program and Requirements. The Bureau also inherited the

“liberated areas” activities of the Office of Foreign Economic Coordination of the Department of State. 

These offices, branches, and divisions were merged into the Bureau of Areas, and the functions they

performed were assigned to the six branches of the Bureau.

Records of the Office of the Executive Director

The Office of the Executive Director planned and directed the programs and policies of

the Bureau of Areas pertaining to foreign countries, maintained liaison with the Bureau of

Supplies, the staff units of the Office of the Administrator, and various interdepartmental and

intergovernmental committees; and supervised the activities of the foreign field missions of the

Foreign Economic Administration, working closely in that connection with the diplomatic

missions of the Department of State. Its Area Program Coordination Staff reviewed the economic

policies of the Administration for each country and coordinated these with the overall supply

program, served as a clearance office for instructions from the branches of the Bureau of Supplies

to the branches of the Bureau of Areas, and acted as the secretariat for the Administration’s

Allocations Committee. The Field Operations Staff was the administrative unit in the Bureau that

served the foreign field missions by coordinating the activities of these missions with those of the

operating branches of the Administration in Washington, supplying the field with digests and

newsletters of economic information, and expediting the exchange of reports between the branches

in Washington and the offices in the field. Matters relating to lend-lease, reverse lend-lease, and

the British White Paper were handled by the Lend-Lease Staff of the Office of the Executive

Director; and administrative duties for the branches and staffs of the Bureau were performed by

the Executive Officer.

Executive Director Records (Entry UD 1)

Boxes 1-9 

Box # File Title or Subject

2-3 Country Files; location: 570/57/33/03

4 Economic Warfare Analysis

Jurisdictional Disputes

State-BEW Cooperative Agreement location: 570/57/33/03

7 Navy Department
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State Department

State Department-Relations With location: 570/57/33/03

8 Treasury Department

Vice President

War Department

White House location: 570/57/33/03

9 Safehaven location: 570/57/33/04

Deputy Executive Director Records (Entry UD 2)

Box # File Title or Subject

10-12 Committees location: 570/57/33/04

13-15 Country Programs location: 570/57/33/04

18 President, The...and Vice President location: 570/57/33/05

19 Turkish Division location: 570/57/33/05

20 German Control Council

German Division

German Letters and Memoranda

J.I.C.149 - Intelligence Liaison

T.I.I.C.150 -Safehaven location: 570/57/33/05

21 Italian Division

Neutral Countries Division; location: 570/57/33/05

23 Currie, Laughin location: 570/57/33/06

25 Navy Department

State Department 1944-1945

State Department 1942 location: 570/57/33/06

26 Treasury Department

War Department location: 570/57/33/06

Records of the Area Program Coordination Staff

Program Coordination Staff Records (Entry UD 3)

Box # File Title or Subject

29-39 Country Files location: 570/57/33/06

42 Economic Warfare location: 570/57/34/01

43 Meetings, State Department

OWI Reports location: 570/57/34/01

44 Relationship Between State and FEA Foreign Service

location: 570/57/34/02

Records of the Field Operations Staff

Field Operations Staff Records (Entry UD 4)

Box 46 location: 570/57/34/02

Records of the British Empire and Middle East Branch

All aspects of the FEA’s relations with the British Empire and countries in the Middle

East were handled by this branch. Its representatives conferred with those of the British Empire on

joint aspects of economic warfare and provided for an interchange of economic, political, and

 

149 Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC).

150 The Technical Industrial Intelligence Committee (TIIC).
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military information about lend-lease activities and foreign trade. 

Records of the Turkish Division

Turkish Division Records (Entry UD 7)

Boxes 1-47 location: 570/58/11/06

Records of the Enemy Branch

The Enemy Branch was responsible for planning the economic program to be put into effect when the

enemy countries should be occupied. It prepared studies and reports for the industrial disarmament of the

enemy to prevent future wars, including analyses of the entire economic structure of the Axis countries. 

The Enemy Branch was established on December 30, 1944, with the name the German and Austrian

Branch; a name change was shortly forthcoming. It had a leading role in the Safehaven Progam. When it

was established and responsibility placed in it for Safehaven activities, the External Security, Intelligence

Service, and other staff which hitherto had been independent divisions, were made part of it. In addition,

the Branch included personnel from the old independent divisions which had been involved in Safehaven

operations. Thus in the beginning of 1945 the Enemy Branch, under the direction of Henry H. Fowler,151

the Safehaven Program was the responsibility of one unit. 

Among the first activities of the Branch was pulling together information for the Currie Mission to

Switzerland. An important document developed for this purpose was a “Preliminary List of German

Cloaks in Switzerland.” This report included a list of five important Swiss banking firms which actively

helped Germany be concealing its assets, assisting in then expansion of its holding companies, and

disguising its foreign accounts.152 The covering memorandum to the report, dated January 1, 1945, stated

that “these lists contain only partial information, although they are based on a careful study of intercepts,

they do not cover all the activities of those banks. Yet they indicate the tremendous amount of such

assistance given by the Swiss to the enemy. This assistance which served to finance the enemy’s purchases

of critical war material has become less important at the present stage of the war. However, it should serve

at this time to demonstrate to the Swiss the extent of the damage they have done to the Allied war effort in

the past.” “In addition,” the memorandum continues, “ it should be pointed out that their aid to the enemy

in the banking field was clearly beyond the obligations under which a neutral must continue trade with a

belligerent and dictated soley by the profit motive of the Swiss banks.” The memorandum concludes by

stating “The Swiss should make up for this undue amount of aid given to the enemy, which we have not

interfered with up to the present time, by full compliance with our Safe haven objectives and other

remaining financial warfare objectives.”153

The report listed five banks certain to have cooperated with the Germans. they were Bank Wadenswil; H.

Sturzenegger & Cie., a private bank of Basel and closely allied with I.G. Farben; the Swiss Bank

Corporation; Johann Wehrli and Company, Zurich; and Financiere A.G. The report lists thirteen holding

and finance companies which acted as cloaks for German assets.154 The report also contained a section on

intelligence not entirely verified, including the unconfirmed statement that “it was reported---October 10,

 

151 Fowler had been formerly General Counsel for the Office of Production Management and the War

Production Board (September 1941-September 1944). In September 1944 he was assigned to the Mission on

Economic Affairs in London.

152 Clarke, “Safehaven Study,” pp. 130-131.

153 Clarke, “Safehaven Study,” p. 131.

154 Clarke, “Safehaven Study,” pp. 132-134.
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1944, that accounts are held for Hitler in the Swiss Union Bank, Basel, by a German official named Max

Amann.”155

Records of the Blockade Division

The chief functions of the Blockade Division were to administer blockade control measures; to determine

blockade clearance for United States exports to neutral countries in europe; and, so far as the Preclusive

Purchase Operations were concerned, to provide data on the supply needs of neutrals and the enemy, and

to make recommendations for preclusive operations.

The purpose of the Blockade Division was to control neutral shipping and thus to prevent strategic goods

from reaching the Axis through neutral trade channels. To achieve this end the following devices were

employed: the Navicert; Ship’s Warrant, Seizure and Search; the exercise of British Prize Law, the

American proclaimed List, and the British Black List.

The Division was also involved in efforts to stop Germany’s smuggling efforts. As the blockade became

increasingly successful during the course of the war, and as Germany’s supplies grew thinner, it had

recourse to smuggling. Smuggling to Germany of easily concealed strategic items and materials increased

during 1942 and 1943, alerting both the United States and Great Britain and causing them to take steps to

destroy illicit trade between the enemy and the neutrals. In the summer of 1943 the United States

Government became so concerned over the problem that through the Department of State the Blockade

Committee in London was urged to recommend to the British that through searches of vessels bound from

Argentina to neutral European ports be instituted. The United States Navy concurred in this

recommendation.

Anticipating the crisis arising because of smuggling, the Blockade Division had already, in June 1943,

made a study of the problem and had issued instructions on combating blockade evasion. In its Blockade

Enforcement Manual, June 1943, the Division stated “the Axis can finance smuggling in Latin America in

two specific ways. In the first place it can use funds already in existence in Latin America, and in the

second place it can transmit new or additional funds for that purpose. There are still a considerable

number of German and other Axis corporations, German and Italian Banks, Axis nationals and their

sympathizers in Latin America with large funds built up before the war, which can be put to use to finance

smuggling and other activities beneficial to the Axis. In addition Axis corporations in Latin America

which are producing profits can make new funds continuously available so that the investments do not

need to be liquidated. Because many Axis funds are cloaked so that they cannot readily be discovered, no

estimate of their size is possible. A number of Axis banks are still operating in Buenos Aires such as the

Banco de Napoli and the Banco Aleman Transatlantica, but their activities seem to be rather limited. New

or additional funds can be transferred from the Axis to South American agents. The axis can remit funds

directly to the Argentine, or can use European neutral countries which in turn remit funds to all countries

in Latin America. These remittances are not met simply through the exchange of marks for local currency,

because these countries rarely wish to invest in marks. Therefore new funds have to be remitted by the

Axis to Latin America in the form of goods, coins, stamps, dollar notes, and securities.”156

The Blockade Division not only collated the material it had accumulated in the process of operating its

special activities, but it had asked for the intelligence resources of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 157

the Office of Censorhsip, the Office of Navy Intelligence, the Army’s Military Intelligence (G-2), and the

 

155 Clarke, “Safehaven Study,” p. 134. Max Amann served as Hitler’s banker and oversaw his royalties

from Mein Kampf. 156 Cited in Clarke, “Safehaven Study,” pp. 50-51.

157 In Argentina the Legal Attache of the American Embassy was an FBI agent. Regarding smuggling as a

subversive activity, the FBI had primary jurisdiction. The Naval Attache was in charge of stopping ships and

searching for contraband.
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Board of Economic Warfare. Diplomatic Missions were requested to report information on local

smuggling rings, and related material at hand in Washington was examined. All available facts were

checked and a file was made which listed the names of smugglers, the names of ships used in blockade

running, the kinds of commodities smuggled, the names of ports to whcih deliveries of smuggled goods

were made, routes, and methods and means of concealing goods.

The Enemy Branch (later known as the European Enemy Division) made studies of enmy supply positions

with respect to materials being smuggled, thus providing the Blockade Division with guides on the

importance or relative insignificance of blockade evasions. The greatness of the enemies’ need for

material guided the counter measures taken smugglers and helped to determine the nature and extent of

preclusive purhases.

The significance of the blockade work of the Blockade Division, so far as the Safehaven

Program is concerned, is that there was created in the Division a backlog of information about

firms and individuals who were actively assisting the Axis, and who would bear watching the

future.

Blockade Division Records (Entry UD 8)

Boxes 1-144 location: 570/58/17/07

Box # Country and/or Subject

54 Argentina location: 570/58/18//07

55 Austria

location: 570/58/18/07

56-57 Axis location: 570/58/19/01

68-73 French North Africa location: 570/58/19/02

75-76 Germany location: 570/58/19/03

78-79 Iberian Peninsula location: 570/58/19/04

90-105 Portugal location: 570/58/19/05

107-108 Spain location: 570/58/20/01

131-133 Sweden location: 570/58/20/04

134-135 Switzerland location: 570/58/20/05

136 Turkey location: 570/58/20/05

139-144 Blocakde Division’s relationship with other agencies. location:

570/58/20/05

Blockade Division Records (Entry UD 16)

Records relate primarily to neutral countries.

Boxes 1-8 location: 570/58/21/01

Records of the Intelligence Service Staff

Intelligence Service Staff Records (Entry UD 9)

Records relate to a variety of matters, including Safe Haven, Special Watch Instructions,

and value of censorship material to the FEA.

Boxes 1-12 location: 570/58/20/06

Records of the European Branch

The area covered by the European Branch included France, Italy, Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Northern

Europe, and the neutral European countries. Together with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation

Administration, this Branch assisted in preparing and carrying out programs for the relief, rehabilitation,
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and reconstruction of the liberated portions of its area, reviewing requisitions for supplies and determining

their essentialness.

Records of the Office of the Director

Office of the Director Records (Entry UD 10)

Box 2 of this series contains a folder entitled “Safehaven” that contains four reports

labeled:“Looted Art in Occupied Territories, Neutral Countries and Latin America” (May 5,

1945), “Report of Activities No. 4" (June 1945), “The Vesting of German Assets in Spain: A Case

Study in Vesting of German Assets Abroad” (July 1945), and “Extra-Territorial Effect of

Economic Measures Taken By the Occupying Powers in Germany: Problems of Recognition and

Enforcement in Neutral Countries” (May 1945).

Boxes 1-4 location: 570/58/14/01

Records of the Neutral Countries Division

Neutral Countries Division Records (Entry UD 12)

Boxes 1-9 location: 570/58/14/07

Records of the Liberated Areas Branch

Liberated Areas Branch Records (Entry UD 15)

Boxes 1-18 location: 570/58/21/01

Records of the Pan American Branch

Central File October 1942-November 1945 (Entry 384)

Boxes 2318-2332 location: 570/57/34/02

Reports and Dispatches from United States Missions in Latin America December 1941-

November 1945 (Entry 385)

Boxes 2333-2493 location: 570/57/34/04

Records of the Office of the Director

General File of the Director 1943-1945 (Entry 398)

Boxes 2509-2513 location: 570/58/3/02

Geographic File of the Director 1942-1945 (Entry 399)

Boxes 2513-2514 location: 570/58/3/03

Records of the Economic Intelligence Division

Until the German and Austrian (Enemy Branch) was created late in 1944, the Economic Intelligence

Division had been a separate unit of FEA under the Special Areas Branch, and had serviced most

departments of the agency. The Division had its origins in pre-war 1941, when it was discovered that it

would be necessary to gather information on the economic resources of Japan for the administration of

export control. After December 7, 1941, the Board of Economic Warfare established Analysis Sections

and Intelligence Sections on geographical lines, the purpose being to procure economic data for the armed

forces and for other United States and Allied Governmental agencies.

Collaborating throughout the war with the British Ministry of Economic Warfare and with other

intelligence units operating for the United States, the Economic Intelligence Division, which later became

the Intelligence Service Staff, gathered, compiled, classified and made available to the proper authorities
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the data received from censorship intercepts, foreign radio broadcasts, foreign publications, American

business firms with foreign interests, representatives of foreign countries, returned travellers, refugees, and

United States intelligence agents operating in foreign countries.

The division maintained close liaison with Military Intelligence (G-2) and the Office of Naval Intelligence,

having representatives of those two services attached to the office in Washington, DC. In addition, it

maintained a close relationship with the Office of Strategic Services, the Office of Censorship, and the

Federal Bureau of Investigation. FEA special agents in the field, United States Commercial Company

representatives, FEA business experts, and United States diplomatic officers and intelligence agents

operating in foreign countries contributed reports to the unit.

Numbered Subject Files (Entry 500B)

Boxes 1-2103 location: 570/59/5/02

Indexes to the Numbered Subject Files

Index by Country (Entry 500AO) 

Boxes 1-323 location: 570/58/22/01

Box # Country and/or Subject

12-18 Argentina location: 570/58/22/03

20-22 Austria location: 570/58/22/05

22-25 Axis Powers location: 570/58/22/07

136-161 Germany location: 570/58/26/06

184-190 Italy location: 570/58/28/04

253-258 Portugal location: 570/58/31/01

266-273 Spain location: 570/58/31/04

275-279 Sweden location: 570/58/31/06

279-283 Switzerland location: 570/58/31/07

287-290 Turkey location: 570/58/32/02

309 United States (Safehaven) location: 570/58/33/01

Index by City (Entry 500A1) 

Boxes 324-378 location: 570/58/33/04

Box 325 Basel, Switzerland location: 570/58/33/05

Box 326 Bern, Switzerland location: 570/58/33/05

Index by Subject (Entry 500A2) 

Boxes 379-420 location: 570/58/35/04

Index by Recipient (Entry 500A3) 

Boxes 421-425 location: 570/59/2/01

Index by Foreign Government (Entry 500A4) 

Boxes 426-433 location: 570/59/2/02

Index by Name of Organization (U.S. Government Agency) (Entry 500A5)

Boxes 434-470 location: 570/59/2/04

Index by Allied Organization (Entry 500A6) 

Boxes 471-474 location: 570/59/3/07
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Index: Major Hart’s File (Entry 500A7) 

Box 475 location: 570/59/3/07

Index: Pulleston’s File (Entry 500A8)

. Box 476 location: 570/59/3/07

Records of the Office of Inter-American Affairs (RG 229)

The Office of Inter-American Affairs was established by an Executive order of July 30, 1941, in the Office

for Emergency Management, as the successor to the Office for Coordination of Commercial and Cultural

Relations Between the American Republics. Until March 1945 the agency was named the Office of the

Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (OCIAA). Its purpose, as stated in the Executive order was to

“provide for the development of commercial and cultural relations between the American Republics” and

thereby to increase the solidarity of the Western Hemisphere and further “the spirit of cooperations

between the Americas in the interest of Hemisphere defense.” More specifically, the Office was directed

to formulate and execute programs in the commercial and economic fields and the files of the arts and

sciences, education and travel, the radio, the press, and the cinema that would further national defense and

strengthen the bonds between the nations of the Western Hemisphere. It was required to work closely with

the Department of State in promoting Hemisphere solidarity.

The Office was headed by Nelson A. Rockefeller as Coordinator until shortly before its name was

changed, by an Executive order of March 23, 1945, to the Office of Inter-American Affairs, which was

headed by Wallace K. Harrison as Director. The Office as early as April 1941 had lost many of its

economic responsibilities to the Board of Economic Warfare and in the same year some of its long-range

cultural activities were taken over by the Department of State. By an Executive order of August 31, 1945,

the informational activities of the Office of Inter-American Affairs were transferred to the Department of

State; and by an Executive order of April 10, 1946, the Office was abolished and its remaining functions

and responsibilities were transferred to that Department.

General Records

Central Files 1940-1945 (Entry 1)

Arranged according to a filing scheme that is reproduced in appendix I of National

Archives Inventory No. 7 (consult finding aids in Room 2600). This scheme divides the records

by subject, function, or correspondence into six major headings, which a number assigned to each:

(0) Inter-American Activities in the United States, (1) Basic Economy, (2) Commercial and

Financial, (3) Information, (4) Administration, and (5) Alphabetical. Within each major heading

the files are arranged by subjects and subtopics and thereunder chronologically, except for No. 5,

which consists of correspondence with other U.S. Government agencies, the Pan American Union,

and the United Nations. These records are arranged alphabetically by agency and thereunder

either chronologically or by agency subdivisions or names of officials. See Inventory No. 7 for

further description of arrangement and content. 

Boxes 1-500 location: 350/74/34/06

Records of the Department of Transportation

The Department of Transportation was established as the Transportation Division in 1942

to promote the transportation program of the Office. In 1945 it was combined with the

Department of Economic Development to form the Department of Transportation and Economic

Development.

Records Concerning Proclaimed List of Certain Blocked Nationals (“Black List”) 1945-1946
168

(Entry 42)

Arranged Chronologically. Copies or parts of the list with memorandums and action

proposals for additions and deletions. The list was of persons or firms in Latin America and

elsewhere aiding, or suspected of aiding, the Axis Powers. It was prepared by the

Interdepartmental Committee on the Proclaimed List, which was composed of representatives from

various U.S. Government agencies, including the OIAA, and from the British and Canadian

Embassies. Earlier records relating to the Proclaimed List are in the central files (Entry 1)

Boxes 666-668 location: 350/76/13/03

Records of the Department of Information

The Department was established in 1942 to bring together and continue the activities of

press, radio, motion-picture, and education units that had been inherited by the Office of the

Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs from its predecessor. In August 1945 the Department was

abolished and its functions and records were transferred to the Department of State.

Records of the Regional Division

The main function of the Regional Division, established in 1942, was to direct and

correlate the activities of the various coordination committees. The Division maintained working

relations with the Department of State, obtaining from it approval for field projects of the

coordination committees. The coordination committees provided local guidance in adapting the

Office’s program,. to local conditions, checked on the effectiveness of the program in each

country, and executed programs that could not be handled efficiently by United States diplomatic

representatives.

Records of the Coordination Committee for Argentina

General Records 1941-1945 (Entry 98)

Arranged by subject, type of record, or correspondence and thereunder chronologically.

Most of the correspondence is with coordination committees and missions in other Latin American

countries and OIAA divisions in Washington. It relates to administrative and financial matters,

organization, functions, activities, and projects of the Committee. A substantial amount concerns

propaganda and information activities through the press, radio, and motion picture media.

Boxes 1234-1258 location: 350/76/26/05

Records of the High Commissioner for Germany (HICOG) (RG 466)

The U.S. High Commissioner for Germany (USHCG) represented the U.S. Government in Germany,

including on the Allied High Commission for Germany, and with respect to economic matters of concern

to the Economic Cooperation Administration and the Mutual Security Agency. The Position of USHCG,

commonly referred to as “HICOG,” was established in the Department of State by an Executive order of

June 6, 1949. The Office of USHCG was established in the State Department on September 21, 1949. It

assumed many of the functions and activities of the U.S. Group Control Council, Germany (USGCC,

August 1944-October 1945) and the Office of Military Government for Germany (U.S.) [OMGUS]

(October 1945-1949). It was abolished on May 5, 1955, by proclamation of the Allied High Commission

for Germany. Its remaining functions were transferred to the Department of State (U.S. Embassy, Bonn,

Federal Republic of Germany). 

John J. McCloy served as the U.S. High Commissioner during the 1949-1952 period.

Records of the United States High Commissioner for Germany, John J. McCloy
169

Classified General Records 1949-1952

Arranged chronologically by year, thereunder by document number.

Boxes 1-43 location: 250/68/9/02

Top Secret General Records 1949-1952

Arranged chronologically by year, thereunder by document number.

Boxes 1-6 location: 250/68/10/01

Historical Analysis of the McCloy Administration, 1949-1952. (Entry 8)

Arranged chronologically. A register (journal) of daily activities conducted by McCloy,

with references to documents in the two proceeding series of records.

Boxes 1-4 location: 250/68/10/03

Records of the Office of the Executive Director

General Records 1949-1955

Arranged chronologically by date segments: 1949-1952 and 1953-1955, and thereunder by

the Department of State foreign service post decimal filing scheme.

Boxes 1-114 location: 250/68/10/03

Box # File # File Title

6-11 321.3 German External Assets (1949-1952) location:

250/68/10/04

47 321.3 German External Assets (1953-1955) location:

250/68/11/03

Security-Segregated General Records 1949-1955

Arranged chronologically by date segments: 1949-1952 and 1953-1955, and thereunder by

the Department of State foreign service post decimal filing scheme.

Boxes 1-234 location: 250/68/12/5

Box # File # File Title

21-27 321.3 German External Assets (1949-1952) location:

250/68/13/01

162-

163

321.3 German External Assets (1953-1955) location:

250/68/15/07

Top Secret General Records 1953-1955

Boxes 1-3 location: 250/83/23/1

General Hay’s Files 1949-1951

Boxes 1-6 location: 250/83/23/02

Records of the Office of the Executive Secretary

General Records 1947-1952

Arranged numerically by an agency-assigned file number. This series consists of records

that were transferred to, created, maintained, or used by the Office of the Executive Secretary

(OES), a high level office that reported directly to the High Commissioner. Many of these records
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consist of correspondence of Alexander R. Forest (Chief of the Policy Report Branch of the OES)

and document his contacts with various military officials, foreign representatives, and others

involved in the occupation and administration of Germany after World War II. Many of the

documents were originally created by the Office of Military Government, US (OMGUS) and were

later used and filed in various offices of the U.S. High Commission for Germany (HICOG) after

the dissolution of OMGUS. A large segment of this series includes agendas and minutes of the

Allied High Commission (HICOM) meetings (1949-1952).

Boxes 1-98 location: 250/83/23/03

Miscellaneous Files Relating Primarily to Berlin

Arranged in two segments: alphabetically by subject, and numerically by agency-ssigned

Roman numeral. A box list describing the folder titles is enclosed in Box 1 of this series.

Boxes 1-14 location: 250/83/25/03

Records of the Historical Division

Publications Relating to the United States Occupation of Germany 1945-1953

Arranged according to an agency prepared title list. This list of titles appears in the first

folder of Box 1of the series.

Boxes 1-5 location: 250/68/17/05

Miscellaneous Publications.

Box 1 location: 250/83/25/05

Miscellaneous Microfilm Prepared by the Historical Division Pertaining to HICOG,

OMGUS, and POLAD 1945-1952

Boxes 1-23 location: 250/83/25/05

Records of the Office of the General Counsel

Records Relating to Agreements Between the Allied High Commission and the Federal

Republic of Germany 1949-1955

Arranged by a numerical filing system or by type of agreement.

Boxes 1-17 location: 150/83/26/03

Records of the Decartelization and Deconcentration Division

General Subject Files 1948-1955

Arranged alphabetically by subject. A list of files is contained in the RG 466 finding aid

in the consultation area in Room 2600.

Boxes 1-6 location: 250/83/28/04

Cartel Subject Files 1947-1955

Arranged alphabetically by name of cartel or business. A list of files is contained in the

RG 466 finding aid in the consultation area in Room 2600.

Boxes 1-72 location: 250/83/28/06

Records of the U.S. Element, Tripartite I.G. Farben Control Group (TRIFCOG)

Security-Classified Records Relating to I.G. Farben 1949-1954
171

Arranged by a 3 volume agency-created numeric file plan entitled Inventory of Files and

Records of the Tripartite I.G. Farben Control Group (TRIFCOG), U.S. Element.

158 Records

consist of translations of German documents in the Nuremberg trial of I.G. Farben and include

interrogations of high ranking I.G. Farben employees. 

Boxes 1-14 location: 250/83/29/02

There are numerous series of records created by this entity in our custody. Researchers

should consult the RG 466 finding aids in the consultation area in Room 2600 for specific series

descriptions, boxes, and locations.

Records of the Law Committee

Records of the U.S. Representative to the HICOM Law Committee 1949-1955

Arranged alphabetically by subject of record. This series contains the records of the U.S.

representative on the Law Committee of the tripartite Allied High Commission for Germany

(HICOM)

Boxes 1-21 location: 250/84/13/01

Records Pertaining to HICOM Laws and Regulations 1949-1955

Arranged by law or regulation number.

Boxes 1-25 location: 250/84/13/04

Records of the U.S. Secretariat, Allied High Commission

General Records 1949-1952

Arranged chronologically.

Boxes 1-27 location: 250/68/23/04

Allied High Commission Document File 1949-1955

Boxes 1-63 location: 250/84/14/06

Records of the Property Office

Records Relating to Restitution of Property under U.S. Military Government Laws and

Compensation to Persecutees under the General Claims Laws.

Arranged in two segments: by agency-assigned decimal number, and alphabetically by

name of claimant. This series consists primarily of records created by the Office of Military

Government US (OMGUS) that were loaned to the U.S. High Commission for Germany (HICOG)

by the Department of the Army after the dissolution of OMGUS. In addition, there are many

HICOG records in this series that were created while HICOG assumed the duties of providing

restitution of property by implementing Military Government No. 59 and the Unified General

Claims Laws. Many of the files contain correspondence of Werner Lowenthal who served in

restitution-related positions under OMGUS and HICOG and ultimately served as Property Officer

in the Office of the General Counsel under HICOG. This series includes a copy of Military

Government Law No. 59; amendments to the laws; instructions for implementing the law;

correspondence between Lowenthal and various restitution agencies; and correspondence with the

Jewish Restitution Successor Organization (JRSO).

 

158 This finding aid is applicable to the records of all the series of TRIFCOG records.
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Boxes 1-10 location: 250/84/23/07

Records of the Regional Land Commissioners

Records of the Office of the Land Commissioner for Wuerttemberg-Baden

Records of the Intelligence Division

Records of the Denazification Section

Denazification Files on Dr. Hjalmar Schacht and Franz Konrad 1947-1950

Arranged by type of record and thereunder by volume number (Schacht trial transcripts,

protocols) or chronologically (Schacht press releases, Konrad case files). 

 Boxes 1-4 location: 250/84/28/05

There is a possibility that other pertinent records may be found within the various land

commissioners offices records. Researchers should consult the RG 466 finding aids in the

consultation area of Room 2600.

Records of International Conferences, Commissions, and Expositions (RG 43)

Records of Meetings of the Council of Foreign Ministers and Related Conferences, 1945-1949

The Council of Foreign Ministers, established to work out postwar settlements, held its first formal session

in September and October 1945 in London. It was followed by the Paris Conference on Reparations, and

the Tripartite Meeting of Foreign Ministers in Moscow, later the same year. In 1946-1949 five more

sessions of the Council of Foreign Ministers were held in Paris, New York, Moscow, and London. During

the same years related conferences, such as the Paris Peace Conference and the Austrian Treaty

Commission, were held. The records of these meetings include official conference documents (agenda,

minutes, and records of decisions), correspondence, telegrams, memoranda, reports, working papers,

speeches, and draft agreements. There are separate subject files in addition to the records of each

conference. The conference records are arranged by conference and thereunder by subject or type of

record. The subject files are arranged alphabetically and thereunder chronologically. (Lot File Nos. M88

and 52-M64). Boxes 1-321 location: 250/8/24/05 Only selected records follows. Researchers interested in

all the records should consult the finding aids in the consultation area in Room 2600.

Records Relating to the Paris Conference on Reparations

The Paris Conference on Reparations was an 18-power conference held in Paris, November 9-December

21, 1945. At the invitation of the governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, as

the powers occupying the western zones of Germany, met to discuss a recommendation for the adoption of

the Paris Agreement on Reparations, which established policies and procedures for the division of German

assets among the 18 governments.159

Background Memoranda and Reports, June 24, 1944-October 23, 1945

Box # File Titles

11 Background Memoranda (3 folders)

Angell Mission - Repmems 1-18

Report on German Reparations to the President of the United

States, February to September 1945

 

159 For additional records, see the Foreign Service Posts of the Department of State (RG 84); records of the

U.S. Embassy in Brussels.
173

location: 250/8/24/07

Numbered Documents

Box # File Titles

11 Numbered Documents, September 27-December 24, 1945 location: 250/8/24/07

Telegrams Sent to and From James W. Angell

Box

#

File Titles

11 Telegrams Sent to Angell October 26-December 27, 1945

Telegrams From Angell 1-200 October 29, 1945-January 1, 1946

location: 250/8/24/07

Data on Claims by Individual Countries

Box # File Titles

12 Data on Claims by Individual Countries November 23-December 13, 1945

location: 250/8/24/07

Final Act of the Conference

Box # File Title

12 Final Act of the Conference, December 21, 1945 location: 250/8/24/07

Final Report of James W. Angell

Box # File Title

12 Final Report of James W. Angell February 18, 1946 location: 250/8/24/07

Miscellaneous Records Relating to Reparations 1944-1948

Box

#

File Title

13 Accomplishments of the Conference

Albania

Berlin Protocol Relating to Reparations, Memorandum on the

Provisions of

Clay, General

Conversations, Memoranda of

Czechoslovakia

Egypt

Ethiopia

Finland

Gold

Gold, Iberian

Gold, Polish

Gold, Restitution of

Gold, Rumanian

Germany, Reparations location: 250/8/24/07

14 Germany, Paper on German Reparations by Edwin W. Pauley

Germany, Restitution

Greece

Italy

Miscellaneous
174

Murphy Cables

Press Release of the Paris Conference, January 14, 1946

Restitution, ACC [Allied Control Council] Definition of Term

Sub-Committee

Telegrams, Berlin-Incoming

Working Papers, Reinstein and Bray location: 250/8/24/07

Records of Meetings of the Ccouncil of Foreign Ministers and Related Conferences

Reference and Working Papers Relating to the First, Second, and Third Sessions of the

Council of Foreign Ministers and the Paris Peace Conference

Country File 1945-1946

Box# File Title and/or Country

85 Albania

Australia

Austria location: 250/8/26/04

86-87 Balkans location: 250/8/26/04

87 Belgium location: 250/8/26/04

87-88 Berlin location: 250/8/26/04

88 Brazil location: 250/8/26/04

88-90 Bulgaria location: 250/8/26/04

90 Byelorussia

Canada location: 250/8/26/05

91 China

Costa Rica

Cuba

Czechoslovakia

Egypt

El Salvador location: 250/8/26/05

91-92 Ethiopia location: 250/8/26/05

92-93 Finland location: 250/8/26/05

93 France location: 250/8/26/05

93-94 Germany location: 250/8/26/05

95-96 Greece location: 250/8/26/05

96 Guatemala

Haiti

Honduras location: 250/8/26/05

96-100 Hungary location: 250/8/26/05

100 India

Iraq

Iran location: 250/8/26/06

100-119 Italy location: 250/8/26/06

119 Japan

Korea

Lithuania

London (British Discussions, Informal Economic Clauses of

Treaty)

Mexico

Netherlands
175

New Zealand

Norway

Panama

Poland

location: 250/8/27/02

120-124 Rumania location: 250/8/27/02

124 Russia

South Africa

Tangier and Morocco

Transylvania

location: 250/8/27/02

124-126 Trieste location: 250/8/27/02

126 Turkey

Ukraine

location: 250/8/27/03

126-127 Venezia Giulia location: 250/8/27/03

128-129 Yugoslavia location: 250/8/27/03

Miscellaneous Subject File 1945-1946

Box # File Title and/or Subject

137-141 Reparations location: 250/8/27/04

Working Papers of Jacques Reinstein, William Bray, and Samuel Reber 1945-1946

Box # File Title or Subject

141 Austria

Bulgaria

Finland

Germany

Hungary

location: 250/8/27/05

142 Italy location: 250/8/27/05

Records of the Austrian Treaty Commission May-October 1947

Austrian Treaty Commission-Subject Files 1947

Box # File Title or Subject

161 Banks (German) location: 250/8/28/01

161-162 Austria location: 250/8/28/01

162 German Assets

German External Property Committee

Austria-German Property

Reparations, Paris Conference

Reparations, Potsdam

location: 250/8/28/01

Economic Studies and Preliminary Reports

Box # File Title

163 Reports on German External Assets in Austria location:

250/8/28/01

164 Report and Recommendation by the U.S. Delegation on
176

German Assets in Austria location: 250/8/28/01

Records of the Council of Foreign Ministers, Fifth Session, London,

November 25-December 15, 1947

Subject Files - Country 1947

Box # File Title or Country

181 Albania

Armenia

Austria 

location: 250/8/28/04

182 Belgium

Brazil

Bulgaria

Byelo-Russia

Canada

China

Cuba

Czechoslovakia

Danube

Denmark 

location: 250/8/28/04

183 Egypt

France

Germany-Allied Control Commission

location: 250/8/28/04

186 German Assets

German External Assets location: 250/8/28/04

191 OMGUS Reports and Studies: Reparations--Progress of

German Reparations/Restitution in the Four Zones location:

250/8/28/05

192-193 German Reparations location: 250/8/28/05

197 Greece

Hungary

location: 250/8/28/06

198 India

Iran

Italy

Japan

Korea

Libya

location: 250/8/28/06

200 Luxembourg

Mexico

Netherlands

New Zealand

Norway

Palestine

Poland

Poland-Gold
177

location: 250/8/28/07

201 Ruhr

Saar

South Africa

Syria

Trieste

Turkey

Ukraine

location: 250/8/28/07

Subject Files - General 1947

Box # File Title or Subject

206 Farben, I.G., Report on location 250/8/28/07

207 Gold Pool location: 250/8/28/07

208 Reparations

Restitution location: 250/8/29/01

209 Statements of Foreign Ministers: Reparations location:

250/8/29/01

Rome Conference on Implementation of the Peace Treaties

Box # File Title

222 Italian Treaty-Article 74, Reparations

Italian Treaty-Article 75, Restitution by Italy location:

250/8/29/03

Records of Meetings on European Questions 1949

Records of Discussions Regarding Swiss-Allied Accord

Box # File Titles

304 Swiss-Allied Discussion-Tripartite Discussions

Swiss-Allied Accord-Official Report of the U.S. Delegation

Swiss-Allied Accord-Quadripartite Discussions 

location: 250/8/30/07

Records of the Council of Foreign Ministers, Sixth Session, Paris, May 23-June 20, 1949

Subject Files of the Sixth Session

Box # File Title

310 Restitution Program in the US Occupied Zone of Germany location: 250/8/31/01

Records of Post-CFM 1949 Meetings

Subject File 1949-Alphabetically By Country

Box # File Tile or Country

313 Albania

Germany location: 250/8/31/02

314 Germany-Assets

Germany-Reparations location: 250/8/31/02

316 Greece

Hungary

Italy

Japan
178

Luxembourg

Netherlands

Palestine

Poland

Trieste

Yugoslavia

location: 250/8/31/02

Subject Files 1949-General

Box # File Title

317 Reparations location: 250/8/31/02

Records of the Council of Foreign Ministers and of Other Meetings of the Foreign Ministers of

the United States and the European Powers, 1943-1955 [Lot File M-88]

[Entry URU MLR 16 accretion]

CFM Working Groups

Box

#

File Title or Subject

110 Intelligence Reports 1946-1947 (3 folders)

Office of Intelligence Research Reports 1947 (3 folders)

location: 250/10/17/06

Reports and Studies on Germany 1945-1953

Box # File Title or Subject

120-126 German Reparations; Box 125 contains “Reparation:

OMGUS Reparation & Restitution Reports, 1945-1948

location: 250/10/18/01

Contractual Arrangements

Box # File Title

137 Draft Conv.-Claims Against Germany

Draft Conv.-Compensation for Victims of Nazi Persecution

Draft Conv.-General Claims location: 250/10/18/03

145 Internal Restitution April thru November 1952 location:

250/10/18/04

148 Reparations July 1951 thru December 1953 location:

250/10/18/04

Inter-Governmental Study Group for Germany, London-Paris 1950-1951

Box # File Title

165 Working Paper on Reparation Problems location: 250/10/18/07

Subject File

Box

#

File Title

171 Finance: Banking (German Banks, Foreign Banks) location:

250/10/19/01

172 Reparations; Restitution location: 250/10/19/01

178 Restitution with Other Countries: Austria, Brussels, Czech. Govt.,

Danish Minorities in Schleswig-Holstein, Federal Republic (2
179

folders), and Israel Restitution location: 250/10/19/02

Tripartite Commission on German Debt

Box # File Title

190 Swiss Accord Position Papers

USDel/TCGD(52) Swiss Accord 1-20 location: 250/10/19/04

191 German Text re Swiss Accord location: 250/10/19/04

Conference on German External Debts, London, February-August 1952

Box # File Title

195 Report of Conference on German External Debts, February-August

1952

BIS [Bank for International Settlements] - Position re Y.L. in Debt

Conf. location: 250/10/19/04

Conference on German External Assets and Looted Gold, Washington January 6-21, 1953

Box # File Title

197 Tripartite Mtg. on German External Assets and Looted Gold, January

1953-Memos and Documents

External Assets - German-U.S. Discussions

198 German Assets - Dux

External Assets - 1942-1945; External Assets - 1945-1949

German External Assets - 1948-1952

External Assets - October 1952 - May 1953

199 External Assets 1953-1955 Negotiations & Position Paper

Art Looting Investigation Unit-Final Report

French Report - BIS [Bank for International Settlements] Material

Germany - Control of I.G. Farben

Rumania - Negotiations

Sweden Accord

Allied-Swedish Conference on Looted Dutch Gold

200 Background Information on Looted Gold with Specific Relation to

Swedish Accord (Netherlands Gold) [2 envelopes]

201 Additional Gold Claim Against Sweden

Swedish-Negotiations; Swedish-Negotiations & Accord

Swedish, Negotiations re Looted Gold; Swedish-NegotiationsMinutes

Swedish-Safehaven Legation

202 Swedish - Safehaven Negotiations - Legal Opinion

Swiss-Allied Accord Implementation of Gold Payment

Swiss - Assets in the United States

Swiss Claims-Debts Clearing & Swiss Accord Documents

Swiss - Constitution

Swiss - National Bank BIS [Bank for International Settlements],

Other Swiss Banks

Switzerland - General

Switzerland - List of Firms Owned or Controlled By Germans

Swiss - Negotiations - Volume I

Swiss - Negotiations - Final Agreement - Volume III

203 German Economic Penetration in Switzerland
180

Switzerland - Safehaven Gold Transactions

Swiss - Safehaven Legislation, Jurisprudence, Court Decisions

Switzerland - Swiss Negotiations, German Mark Exchange Rate and

Gold Commission

Spanish - Negotiations

Turkish - Negotiations

German - Vesting Decree

External Assets (Miscellaneous) 

location: 250/10/19/04

German Debt Subject File

Box # File Title

218 Assets location: 250/10/20/01

219 Banking Finance - Inc. Reichsbank location: 250/10/20/01

220-221 Claims (6 olders) location: 250/10/20/01

221 Gold Clause/Goldmark Problem location: 250/10/20/01

222 Negotiations on Claims (6 folders) location: 250/10/20/01

223 Procedure for Settlement of Claims Against Germany

Restitution and Indemnification Claims (1951)

Claims (3 folders)

Banking BIS (Bank of International Settlement)

location: 250/10/20/01

223-229 Claims location: 250/10/20/01

235 Reparations location: 250/10/20/03

236 External Restitution Reports 1946-1950

Restitution - ISG Negotiations (1951) location: 250/10/20/03

237 Restitution - Securities location: 250/10/20/03

237-241 Securities and German/Foreign Currencies location: 250/10/20/03

Subject and Working Files of Jacques J. Reinstein,160 1945-1951

Subject File Relating to Italy

Box # File Title

252 Agreements with Other Countries

Albania

Inter-Allied Reparation Agency

Armistice (Revised)

Assets in Allied Territory

Assets in Ex-Enemy Territories

Assets in the United States

Cables (Jan-June 1946); Cables (July-Dec 1946)

Cables (Charts & Maps)

Cables-Background Data location: 250/10/20/05

253 Claims by & on Other Enemy States

Colonies

Contracts, Prescriptions & Judgments

Debts

 

160 Reinstein in 1945 was the Associate Chief, Division of Financial Affairs; Economic Adviser, U.S.

Delegation, Council of Foreign Ministers, September 11-October 2, 1945.
181

Directives and Basic Cables

Dollar Bonds

Economic & Financial Clauses (Italian Statements)

location: 250/10/20/06

254 Economic Relations (General)

Economic and Financial Conditions

Foreign Indebtedness

Gold, Restitution of

Industrial Property (1946) [2 folders]

Insurance

Latin American Views on Treaty

Miscellaneous

Property in Allied Territory

Renunciation of Claims (Article 66) location: 250/10/20/06

Background File Relating to Italy

255 Allied Financial Agency Reports

Armistice, Revision of

Assets Abroad

Bank of Italy Reports 1946

Communications

Debts, Intergovernmental

Early Drafts, Commentaries, and Memos location: 250/10/20/06

256 Clearing and Payments Agreements

Economic Conditions, General

Economic & Financial Clauses (General)

Economic and Financial Mission

Exports

Foreign Assets in Italy location: 250/10/20/06

257 Foreign Exchange Position - AC Report

Four Ambassadors

Implements of War

Information Being Collected

IRIS Research - London

Italian Gold

Labor Articles and Reparations

Peace Treaty, General; Peace Treaty: Patents

Private Debts and Claims

Public Statements

Relations with Enemy and Neutral Countries

Reparations and Restitution location: 250/10/20/06

258 Restitution

State Research and Analysis Reports

Treatment of Enemy Property in World War I

Treaty Drafts

War Booty; War Damages location: 250/10/20/06

Background File Relating to Trieste

259 Italy: Trieste

Economic & Financial Conditions, Deficit, Commission, etc.

Trieste (Documents and Drafts)
182

CFM [Council of Foreign Ministers] Moscow 1947

Trieste CFM Moscow 1947 Trieste - Misc. location: 250/10/20/06

Subject File Relating to Bulgaria

259 Assets in Germany

Bulgaria location: 250/10/20/07

260 General

Reparations

Working Papers

UN Property location: 250/10/20/07

Subject File Relating to Hungary

260 Assets in Germany

General

Gold

Reparations; Restitution

Working Papers

U.N. Property

US and USSR Exchange of Notes

Vienna Award

location: 250/10/20/07

Subject File Relating to Romania

261 Assets in Allied Territory

Assets in Germany (Soviet Proposal)

General

General Economic Conditions

Industrial Property

Military & Political Development 

location: 250/10/20/07

262 Minority Property

Property in Allied and Associated Territory

Reparations; Restitution

Soviet-Rumania Economic Collaboration Agreements

UN Property

location: 250/10/20/07

Subject File Relating to Satellites and the Danube

263 Assets in Allied Territories

Contracts, Prescriptions & Judgments

Debts

External Assets

General

General Economic Relations

German Assets in

Industrial Property

Renunciation of Claims

Reparation; Restitution

Scope of Application

Settlement of Disputes
183

U.N. Property

location: 250/10/20/07

Miscellaneous Subject File

264 Albania

Czechoslovakia

ECOSOC; ECOSOC: Reconstruction

Ethiopia

Eximbank Policy

Finland

Greece

Japanese Reparations

Poland

Reparations - General

Safehaven - General; Safehaven - Swiss

Turkey

UNRRA - General

U.S.S.R.

Views of Ex-Enemy States

Yugoslavia

location: 250/10/20/07

Subject File Relating to Treaties

264 Italy Corrected Master Text Paris

Hungary, Finland Corrected Master Text Paris

Rumania Corrected Master Text Paris

location: 250/10/20/07

265 Italy: Proposed Amendments to Treaty [2 folders]

Balkans: Proposed Amendments to Treaties [2 folders]

Drafts of Satellite Peace Treaties

Comments on Bulgaria Treaty

Italian Treaty: Comments by Other Countries

Italian Observations on Italian Treaty

Comments on Finland Treaty

Comments on Rumania Treaty

Comments on Hungary Treaty

location: 250/10/20/07

266 Commission Reports on Bulgaria Treaty

Commission Reports on Finland Treaty

Commission Reports on Hungary Treaty

Commission Reports on Italy Treaty

Commission Reports on Romania

CP: US Statements Annexed to Reports of Economic Commissions

Observations on Peace Treaties New York (46)

location: 250/10/20/07

267 Rumania, Hungary [3-ring binder]

Italy [3-ring binder]

Bulgaria [3-ring binder]

CFM (NY) (46) Background Memos

CFM NY Report of the Drafting Committee (Peace Treaty with
184

Italy)

CFM (NY) (46) Trieste Misc. Proposals, Drafts, etc.

location: 250/10/21/01

Negotiation File

267 Italy - Civil Affairs Agreement

Italy: Contracts, Prescription & Negotiable Instruments (Annex 7)

Italy: Effect of Annexes (Article 74)

Italy: Free Territory of Trieste (Annex 9)

location: 250/10/21/01

268 Italy: Claims Against Germany (Article 67)

Italy: General Economic Clauses (Article 71)

Italy: Industrial, Literary and Artistic Property (Annex VI)

Italy: Insurance (Annex 6)

Italy: Prewar Debts (Article 70)

Italy: Prize Courts and Judgments (Annex VIII)

Italy: Free Territory of Trieste Economic & Financial Provisions

(Annex XIII)

Italy: Ceded Territories (Annex 3)

Italy: Property in Allied Territories (Article 69)

Italy: Reparation (Article 64); Italy: Restitution (Article 65)

location: 250/10/21/01

269 Italy: Settlement of Disputes (Article 72)

Italy: Settlement of Disputes

Italy: Scope of Application (Article 73)

Hungary

Balkans & Finland: Contracts, Prescription & Negotiable

Instruments (Annex 5)

Balkans: Danube; Balkans: Debts; Balkans: Force & Effect of

Annexes; Balkans: General Economic Clauses; Balkans: Industrial,

Literary and Artistic Property; Balkans: Insurance; Balkans: Prize

Courts & Judgments; Balkans: Property in Allied Territory;

Balkans: Renunciation of Claims; Balkans: Reparation

location: 250/10/21/01

270 Balkans: Restitution; Balkans: Settlement of Disputes; Balkans:

Scope of Applications; Balkans: Transfer of German Assets

Finland: Negotiable File

location: 250/10/21/01

Background File on German Industry and Trade

270 Background Papers May 1950

Berlin

Berlin Financing & Trade promotion

Conversations among Messrs. Reinstein, Trimble, and Stevens

Decartelization

Dismantling

East-West Trade

Foreign Investments in Germany

Law 75 - OIR Report

Level of Industry & PRI History
185

 location: 250/10/21/01

271 Saar (German Memo.)

Telegrams re Law 75

UK-German Trade Talks;

UK-German Trade and Payment Agreement

location: 250/10/21/01

Surrender File (Working Security Committee Documents)

271 Index of Working Security Documents (WS)

WS Mins. 1-40; WS Mins. 41-62

271-275 WS Documents; WS Documents 1-459 location: 250/10/21/01

General Subject File

275 Albania

Austria

CFM Prep. 1949 Austria: Articles 42 & 35

Austria: general 1946

CFM London 1948 Austria - German Assets

CFM Prep. 1949 Austria - Instructions to the US Deputy for the

Austrian Treaty

Preliminary Draft of Austrian Treaty - Paris

location: 250/10/21/02

276 Austria - Treaty between US & Austria 1921

Austrian Treaty Working File

Axis Penetration of European Insurance

Consultation with Benelux

Association of Benelux Countries in Policy Regarding Western

Germany

Brief for Secretary - WFM Sept. 1951

Bulgaria

Bulgarian Delegation Annexes Relating to Greek Claims for

Reparations from Bulgaria

Contractual Relations - HICOM Minutes

Contractual Arrangements: Miscellaneous

CFM Prep. 1948 Deconcentration-Decartelization (Germany)

CFM Prep. 1948 Drafts & Notes

CFM Prep. 1948 Economic Prospects of Germany

CFM Prep. 1948 PPS 37 - Policy Questions Concerning a Possible

German Settlement location: 250/10/21/02

277 CFM Prep. 1948 Reparations (Germany)

CFM Prep. 1948 Special Consultative Group on German Policy

Questions

French Comments on Draft Directive (and Translation) 9/4/51

German Economics

Germany (Economics ) Questions and Answers [3-ring binder]

Occupation Statute Germany

The Peace Treaty with Germany - Recommendation of the

American Jewish Committee

Restitution of IDENTIFIABLE Property - Germany

location: 250/10/21/02
186

278 Germany: Ruhr and Rhineland

Germany - Treaty between US & Germany 1921

Hungary

Index - Miscellaneous

Instructions from Foreign Ministers to HICOM, September 14,

1951

Agenda Working File

Benelux - Asso. with Ger. Study Group

Claims

Contractual Arrangements

Divesting of title Law

location: 250/10/21/02

279 German Libraries

Israeli Claims

PLI

Reparations [2 folders]; Restitution

Rhur

Saar

Waiver of Claims

Catudal: Incoming Letters; Catudal: Outgoing Letters

Letters: Luthringer

Letters: Russell, Radius, Rubin, Kindleberger

Letters: Spiegel, Stibravy

Logistical & Financial Support (Annex 5) location: 250/10/21/02

280 CFM London 1945 JJR Notes; CFM London 1947 JJR Notes;

CFM London Germany - Drafts and memos; CFM London 1947

Jewish Proposals re German & Austrian Treaties CFM London

1947 Germany-Miscellaneous

JJR Memos to Byrnes & Dunn

JJR - Minutes Ministers Mtgs

Comments on Moscow Conference from Vienna

JJR Notes - Moscow - 1947

JJR Notes - CFM New York Meetings

JJR Memoranda - Paris July 10, 1946

Paris Conf[erence]. Organization and Procedure

Ruhr Agreement and Jackson, Stevens, Alphand Letters; Ruhr -

Interchanges with French

location: 250/10/21/02

281 Secret Minutes of Ruhr Agreement

Rumania

Russian Requisitions and reparations Policy in Occupied and

Liberated Countries

CFM(46): Outgoing Telegrams, January-March; CFM(46):

Outgoing Telegrams, April-July; CFM(46): Incoming Telegrams;

PC: Incoming Telegrams; PC: Outgoing Telegrams

Teletype Conference with Washington

Teletype Conferences Feb. 12 [1946]; Teletype Conference - Feb.

13; Teletype Conferences - March 14 [1946]; March 30, 1946; 

April 24; May 8 location: 250/10/21/03

282 Italy: Renunciation of Claims location: 250/10/21/03
187

283 Italy: Reparation (Italian Ability to Pay)

Italy: Reparation - Miscellaneous (CFM - Paris, London); Italy:

Reparation - Miscellaneous (Peace Conference); Italy: Reparation -

Miscellaneous (CFM New York)

Italy: Reparation (Ships)

Italy: Albanian Reparation Claims; Italy: Egyptian Reparation

Claims; Italy: Ethiopian Reparation Claims; Italy: French

Reparation Claims

Italy: Reparation Demands by Greece (Documents)

Italy: Reparation Demands by Greece location: 250/10/21/03

284 Italy: Mexican Reparation Claims; Italy: Netherlands Reparation

Claims; Italy: Polish Reparation Claims; Italy: U.K. and Colonies

Reparation Claims; Italy: U.S. Reparation Claims Italy: U.S.S.R.

Reparation Claims; Italy: Yugoslav Reparation Claims; Italy:

Reparation Claims by Other Countries

Italy: Scope of Application

Italy - Shipping and Inland Transport

Italy: War Debts to Neutrals

War Expenditures

location: 250/10/21/03

Department of the Treasury Records

Records of the Department of the Treasury (RG 56)

The Department of Treasury was chiefly responsible during World War II, as before the war, for managing

the financial affairs of the United States Government. All of its operations were greatly expanded during

the war, and several special functions were assigned to the Department in connection with the war, such as

the control of American assets owned by designated foreign governments and nationals.

The Department’s war-related activities were handled for the most part by its regular organizational units,

although special units were established, such as for the wartime control of foreign funds.

Henry Morgenthau, Jr., who served as the Secretary of the Treasury throughout the war, took a relatively

active role in efforts to accomplish the return Axis looted assets. On February 22, 1945, he issued the

following declaration:

“On January 5, 1943, the United States and certain others of the United Nations issued a warning to all

concerned, and in particular to persons in neutral countries, that they intend to do their utmost to defeat

the methods of dispossession practiced by the government with which they are at war against the countries

and peoples who have been so wantonly assaulted and despoiled.161 Furthermore, it has been announced

many times that one of the purposes of the financial and property controls of the United States Government

is to prevent the liquidation in the United States of assets looted by the Axis through duress and conquest.

“One of the particular methods of dispossession practiced by the Axis powers had been the illegal seizure

of large amounts of gold belonging to the nations they have occupied and plundered. The Axis powers

have purported to sell such looted gold to various countries which continue to maintain diplomatic and

commercial relations with the Axis, such gold thereby providing an important source of foreign exchange

to the Axis and enabling the Axis to obtain much-needed imports from these countries.

 

161 For text of the Inter-Allied Declaration Against Acts of Dispossession Committed in Territories Under

Enemy or Control, see FRUS, 1943, Volume I, pp. 443-444.
188

“The United States Treasury has already taken measures designed to protect the assets of the invaded

countries and to prevent the Axis from disposing of looted currencies, and other looted assets on the world

market. Similarly, the United States Government cannot in any way condone the policy of systematic

plundering adopted by the Axis or participate in any way directly or indirectly in the unlawful disposition

of looted gold. In view of the foregoing facts and considerations, the United States Government formally

declares that it does not and will not recognize the transferene of title to the looted gold which the Axis at

any time holds or has disposed of in world markets. It further declares that it will be the policy of the

United States Treasury not to buy any gold presently located outside of the territorial limits of the United

States from any country which after the date of this announcement acquires gold from any country which

has not broken relations with the Axis, unless and until the United States Treasury is fully satisfied that

such gold is not gold which was acquired directly or indirectly from the Axis powers or is not gold which

any such country has been or is enabled to release as a result of the acquisition of gold directly or indirectly

from the Axis powers.”162 

Correspondence of the Office of the Secretary of the Treasury

The Office of the Secretary of the Treasury included the immediate office of the Secretary,

the office of the Under Secretary, the offices of the several Assistant Secretaries or other officials

who exercised for the Secretary general supervision over particular bureaus or comparable units of

the Department, and the offices of special consultants or advisers to the Secretary on various

subjects. The Secretary, besides his other duties, served as an adviser to the President on fiscal

and other aspects of the war. He was also a member of several Federal boards and committees,

among them the Board of Economic Warfare and the War Refugee Board.

Transcripts of conferences, memoranda, personal correspondence, and copies of papers

coming to the desk of the Secretary during the war are among the Morgenthau Papers in the

Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library at Hyde Park, New York.

Central Files of the Office of the Secretary and Assistant Secretaries

Name and Subject Index to the Central Files [Entry 193] 1933-1956 (Entry 192)

Boxes 1-36 location: 450/57/12/05

Central Files of the Office of the Secretary of the Treasury 1933-1956 (Entry 193)

Boxes 1-246 (includes a box 206A) location: 450/57/13/01

Box # File Title

20 Board of Economic Warfare 1941-1943

War Refugee Board 1944-1945 location: 450/57/13/04

61 Germany (Miscellaneous) location: 450/57/14/03

123 Switzerland [1939-1946] location: 450/57/15/05

Central Files of the Office of the Secretary of the Treasury 1957-1966 (Entry 193A)

Boxes 1-129 location: 450/57/18/02

Office Files of Secretaries, Under Secretaries, and Assistant Secretaries 1932-1965

Records of Assistant Secretary John L. Sullivan

Box 191 contains folder entitled “General Counsel’s War History.” Included is a copy of

 

162 FRUS, 1944, Volume II, pp. 213-214. During 1944 Argentina, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,

and Turkey did not declare publicly their adherence to the declaration or notify the Department of State of their

acceptance of its principles and their intention to implement the declaration. ibid., p. 214n.6.
189

a typewritten 78page-history that was prepared early in 1947, and related records. 

location: 450/57/25/04

Records of Assistant to the Secretary John W. Pehle

Various series, including chronological and subject files. circa 1940-1945

Boxes 206-224 location: 450/57/25/06

Miscellaneous Records of the Secretary and Assistant Secretaries

History of Treasury Participation in Formulation of German Occupation Program, ca.

1944-1946 (Entry 199C)

Box 1 location: 450/57/28/05

Activity Reports 1933-1961

Box # Office Name

10 Foreign Funds Control July 1946-July 1947 location: 450/57/30/04

17 Office of International Finance 1946-1948 location: 450/57/30/05

19 Division of Monetary Research 1946 location: 450/57/30/05

Monthly Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury 1945-1961

Boxes 25-33 location: 450/57/30/06

Records of the Legal Division

By section 512 of the Revenue Act of 1934, there was created the office of the General

Counsel for the Department of the Treasury. The law provided that the General Counsel should be

the chief law officer of the Department and perform such duties in respect to its legal activities as

were prescribed by the Secretary or required by law. By order dated June 20, 1934, the Secretary

prescribed the duties of the General Counsel and established the Legal Division, which was placed

under the direct supervision and control of the General Counsel.

The General Counsel was responsible for and in charge of all legal activities of the

Treasury Department, including all legislation pertaining to the affairs of the Department; rendered

formal legal opinions for the information and guidance of administrative officers of the

Department; prepared or reviewed material for publication, official regulations, Treasury

Decisions, and other rulings and orders concerning laws administered by the Department, and

cooperated with the Department of Justice with respect to litigation in which the Treasury

Department had an interest.

Records of the Office of the General Counsel

Correspondence and Subject Files ca 1927-1963 (Accession 56-74-0001)

Boxes 1-17 location: 450/63/9/01

Subject Files ca. 1940-1957 (Accession 56-58A845)

Boxes 1-6 location: 450/63/9/05

Chronological Files ca. 1940-1957 (Accession 56-58A845)

Boxes 7-12 location: 450/63/9/07

Subject Files ca 1940-1957 (Accession 56-58A845)

Boxes 13-31 location: 450/63/10/02
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General Correspondence 1934-1947 (Entry 352M)

Arranged in several alphabetically arrangements by subject.

Boxes 1-69 location: 450/60/24/04

Records of the Assistant General Counsel (for the Office of the Fiscal Assistant Secretary,

Bureau of Accounts, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and the Bureau of the Mint)

1903-1956

Subject Files ca. 1903-1956 (Accession 56-67A752)

Boxes 1-11 location: 450/63/11/02

Records of the Assistant General Counsel (for Customs, Coast Guard, and

Foreign Funds Control)

Subject Files 1941-1943 (Accession 56-61A331). 

These records pertain almost exclusively to ship movements and seizures, and other

customs matters

Boxes 1-3 location: 450/63/11/05

Records of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for International Affairs

The Office of the Assistant Secretary for International Affairs (OASIA) was, during the

World War II period, named the Office of the Assistant Secretary in Charge of Monetary Research

and Foreign Funds Control. The Assistant to the Secretary in Charge of Monetary Research

supervised both the Division of Monetary Research and all matters relating to the management and

operation of the United States Stabilization Fund. He also had general supervision of all foreign

relations of the Department. In December 1944 the Assistant to the Secretary was replaced by the

Assistant in Charge of Monetary Research and Foreign Funds Control. Both of these positions

were held by Harry D. White.

Records of the Division of Monetary Research

The Division of Monetary Research, established on March 25, 1938, supplied information

and analyses and made recommendations to assist the Secretary of the Treasury and other Treasury

officials in formulating and executing the international financial policies of the Department. The

Division was headed by the Director of Monetary Research, a position held by Harry D. White

until 1945, when Frank Coe became Director. Although the Division was essentially a research

and not an operating unit, it was authorized to act for the Treasury Department in exchange

stabilization and other international financial negotiations and to implement stabilization

agreements through use of the United States Stabilization Fund. During the war the division had

representatives stationed in various foreign countries to deal directly with the governments of those

countries on financial matters, and emergency field officers to assist military authority on financial

and currency problems related to invasion and occupation. The Division also represented the

Treasury Department in interdepartmental groups concerned with international affairs.

At the outbreak of the war in Europe the Division was directed to prepare analyses of the

international aspects of the fiscal policies of the United States and of foreign countries, and

throughout the war it continued to make studies of the financial positions of foreign countries. 

When the Treasury Department’s Foreign Funds Control was established in April 1940, the

Monetary Research Division was assigned to do research for it. 

In 1943 the Division began sending representatives to work directly with military

headquarters in the various theaters and to establish Treasury representation in United States
191

embassies and legations in a number of capitals. At the same time, it undertook work in the field

of postwar planning. Its members performed research, prepared memoranda, and rendered

technical assistance in connection with the numerous conferences of technical experts that

culminated in the International Monetary Conference at Bretton Woods in June 1944.

With the end of hostilities it furnished economic analyses and provided most of the

Treasury advisers for the United States representatives in the many postwar international economic

conferences and organizations.

Records of the Deputy to the Assistant Secretary and Secretary of the International

Monetary Group

Records of the Bretton Woods Agreements 1938-1946 (Entry 360O)

The Bretton Woods Conference, also known as the United Nations Monetary and

Financial Conference, was held during 1944. Economic and financial experts of 44 members of

the United Nations met to discuss balanced economic relationships between nations. The

American delegation was led by Henry Morgenthau, Jr. In August 1944 the United Nations

represented at the Conference adopted Resolution VI, calling upon the neutral governments to take

all necessary steps within their respective jurisdictions to (1) immobilize looted assets; (2) uncover

and control enemy property; and (3) hold German assets for the disposition of the post-hostilities

authorities in Germany.

Boxes 1-59 location: 450/60/30/04

Records of the Assistant Secretary relating to Monetary and International Affairs, 1934-1946

Chronological File of Harry Dexter White, 1934-1946 (Entry 360P)

There is a listing at the beginning of each folder of the subject content of Mr. White’s

correspondence.

Boxes 1-13 location: 450/60/31/05

Staff Memoranda of Harry Dexter White, 1941-1946 (Entry 360Q)

Boxes 14-15 location: 450/60/31/07

Intra-Treasury Memoranda of Harry Dexter White, 1934-1945 (Entry 360R)

Boxes 16-20 location: 450/60/32/01

Memoranda of Conferences held in the Office of the Secretary of the Treasury, 1938-1945 (Entry

360S)

Box 20 location: 450/60/32/01

Memoranda of Conferences held in Harry Dexter White’s Office, 1940-1945 (Entry 360T)

Boxes 20-21 location: 450/60/32/01

RECORDS CURRENTLY BEING ACCESSIONED AND PROCESSED

Newly accessioned Department of Treasury records, mainly from the predecessor offices of the Office of

International Affairs have recently been declassified and moved to an unclassified stack area. The most

heavily used and pertinent records have then been moved to the Textual Research Room (Room 2000)

hold area to make them more accessible. Thus the location for these newly declassified records is the

“Research Room Hold Area.” The Compartment of the Hold Area is given, followed, In brackets [ ], by

the eventual location. Because the records are not being thoroughly processed (e.g., reboxed into archives

boxes), the records are being identified under the accession number under which the Treasury Department
192

retired the records to the Federal Records Center.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT RECORDS IN THE RESEARCH ROOM HOLD AREA AND OTHER

NEWLY ACCESSIONED AND DECLASSIFIED TREASURY DEPARTMENT RECORDS NOT

MOVED TO THE HOLD AREA

Accession 56-66A-155

Correspondence with other Government Agencies, including the Alien Property

Custodian, State Department, and Treasury representatives abroad ca. 1930s-1950s

Boxes 1-3 location: 450/81/19/05

Incoming Correspondence

Box # Country/Area

10 Germany location: 450/81/20/01

11 Germany

Greece

Italy

location: 450/81/20/01

12-13 Italy location: 450/81/20/01

15 Latin America location: 450/81/20/02

20 Portugal location: 450/81/20/04

21 Sweden location: 450/81/20/04

22 Switzerland location: 450/81/20/04

23 Turkey location: 450/81/20/05

Country Files

Box # Country/Area

28-32 Latin America location: 450/81/20/07

32-34 Argentina location: 450/81/21/01

Division of Monetary Research

Monthly Reports to the Secretary Box 67 location: 450/81/22/06

Office of International Finance

Monthly Reports to the Secretary Box 68 location: 450/81/22/06

Office of International Finances

International Conference Files Boxes 69-70 location: 450/81/22/06

Accession 56-66A-816

Special Subject Files

Boxes 1-2 “Looted Gold” location: Compartment 3 [450/80/19/01]

Box # File Titles

1 Austria

Bank for International Settlements, General

Bank of France Mission to Berlin, 1946

Bank Report on Netherlands Gold, 1941 (Volumes I and II)

BIS-Documents Relating to Gold Possibly Delivered to BIS at

Constance
193

Bulgaria

Correspondence -Dutch Gold Shipped to Germany

France

German Correspondence (Grzesinki)

Germany

Gold Bars Received by Swiss National Bank from Deutsche

Reichsbank

Hungary

Inter-Allied Reparations Agency, General

Location and Recovery

Miscellaneous

Negotiations for Restitution, Lisbon, 1946

2 Netherlands (Volumes I and II)

Netherlands-Gold Looted by Germans and Acquired by BIS

Portuguese Position

Prussian Mint Records re Smeltings

Report of Subcommittee and Supplement to Report, Lisbon, 1947

Resmelting Belgian Gold

Spain (Volumes I and II)

Treasury Missions and Conferences

Tripartite Conference Reports on Reparation and Restitution,

Brussels, 1946

Yugoslavia

Boxes 3-4 Miscellaneous statistical reports received from De Nederlandsche Bank

location: Compartment 3 [450/80/19/01]

North Africa Office Records

location: 450/19/02

Box # File Title

5 Bank Instructions and Blocked Accounts

Bank of International Settlements location: 450/80/19/02

6 BEW Reports French Africa

Black List

Blocked Enemy Accounts location: 450/80/19/02

7 Economic Warfare

Enemy Accounts

Enemy Assets location: 450/80/19/03

8 Foreign Funds Control location: 450/80/19/03

9 German Financial Methods in Connection with Occupation location:

450/80/19/03

10 Letters-North African Representatives-U.S. Treasury location:

450/80/19/04

11 Office of War Information (OWI) location: 450/80/19/04

12 Swiss Francs; location: 450/80/19/04

13 Trading with the Enemy Act

Economic Warfare; location: 450/80/19/05

Miscellaneous Subject Files

Box 30 “Safe Haven, 1951" These records pertain to Latin American activities
194

location: Compartment 3 [450/80/20/03]

Foreign Funds Control Activities ca. 1940-1950

Box # File Title or Subject

37-38 (part) Census of Foreign-Owned Property Records location:

Compartment 3 [450/80/20/06]

38(part)-39 Census of U.S. Property Abroad

The above records relate, for the most part, to the administrative aspect of undertaking the

Census in 1941 (TFR-Form 300) and 1943 (TFR-Form 500).

location (for Box 39): 450/80/20/01

Special Subject Files Boxes 45-54

location: Compartments 3-4 [450/80/20/07]

Box # File Title

45 Administration of Executive Order 8389

Applications Relating to U.S. Imports and Exports

Authorizations, Licenses and Reports

Censorship

Conflicting Custodianship

Congressional Hearings-Kilgore Committee on German Financial

Penetration, 1945

Currency Imports Reported by Federal Reserve Banks

Currency Imports to the United States, 1941-1942

Currency Imports: Tables

Currency (United States) Reported Movement

46 Developments

Discussion of Documents and Other Matters Pertaining to the

Foreign Funds Control

Enforcement Division

Exchange Control: Chronology January 1941-June 1942; Originals;

Completed Requests

47 Flight of Axis Capital

General Information on the Administration, Structure and Functions

of the

Foreign Funds Control, 1940-1948

General License No. 94

General License, Rulings and Authorizations

History of the Foreign Funds Control Operation

Holland: Study on Banks Sponsored and/or Controlled by German

Interests, 1945; Study on the Central Bank and the Eight Largest

Commercial Banks, 1944

Investigations: Bata Company; Stehlik, R.F.; Wallenbergs;

Williamson, Hugh

48 Germany: External Assets and Obligations MGAX-1; Declarations

consisting of the following: (a) German Property Located in and

Claims Against the United States (Books 1-4), (b) Foreign

(U.S.)Property Located in and Claims Against Germany (Books 5-

27), and (c) Present Holders of German-owned Foreign (U.S.)
195

Securities (1 book).

49-50 Germany: List of N.S.D.A.P. Members in Foreign Countries (Nazi

Party List)

51 Latin America: Enemy Property

Latin America: Reports

Licensing Division

Licensing: Reports of Applications Reviewed

Meetings in Director’s (Pehle) Office

Monthly Activity Reports

Organization

Proclaimed List: 1941-1946; Proclaimed List: General Information

Proclaimed List: Meetings with Nominating Committee

Property Reports

Stamp Trade

Statistical: Progress Reports; Weekly Reports; Miscellaneous

Countries

Statistical Program, General

52 Summary of Trade Applications

TFR: 300-500 (1942-1952) Volumes I though IV

300-Galley Proof and Worksheets

300-Memoranda

300-Questions and Answers (Insurance Companies)

300-Receipt of Reports

500-Memoranda

500-Correspondence

53 TFR: 600 - 1948-1949

600-Codes

600-Tabulation Results

100- 1940-1941163

53-54 Trade Tables - June-November 1941; December 1941-May 1942

54 Trading with the Enemy Act

Transactions Affecting Foreign Bank Accounts in New York Area

Treatment of American Assets Abroad

Foreign Funds Control: Correspondence (1943-1949)

Foreign Funds Control: Memoranda (Staff) during the years 1943-

1950

Freezing Program

55 Special Subject Files Relating to the Freezing Program

location: Compartment 4 [450/80/21/03]

File Title

Agenda

American Property Abroad

Analysis of Trade Applications

 

163 The duplicate TFR Form-100 Reports and the duplicate originals TFR Form 100-Reports were legally

destroyed in July 1987 after having been appraised as disposable by NARA and approved for destruction by the

Department of Justice. The forms were used to report property situated in the United States on April 8, 1940, in

which certain countries or any national thereof had at any time on or since April 8, 1940, had any interest. These

reports were filed in triplicate on or before May 15, 1940, at any Federal Reserve Bank, in accordance with

Executive Order 8389 of April 10, 1940, and regulations of the same day.
196

Chemie, I.G.

Chronology (1940-1942)

Johnson Act

Joint Committee (State and Treasury)

Minutes of Meetings with Foreign Funds Control

Policy

Representatives Abroad

Status of Cases

Country and Area Files Relating to the Freezing Program

Boxes 56-57 Compartment 4 [450/21/03]

Legal Records

Special Subject Files

Miscellaneous Records Relating to the Defrosting Program and Legislation, including

information on the Bretton Woods Agreement Act and the Trading with the Enemy Act. Contains

specific files on Austria, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.

Box 61 location: Compartment 4 [450/80/21/05]

Miscellaneous Records Relating to Looted Securities, including “General-Volumes I

through IV (1944-1947); “Netherlands,” and “Restitution of Looted Securities Located in Austria

and Germany” Box 62 location: Compartment 4 [450/80/21/05]

Records of the Office of the Technical Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury

Stabilization Records

Subject File 1936-1942

Box # File Title or Subjects

74 “Germany” and “Gold” location: Compartment 4 [450/80/22/02]

80 Switzerland, including the Bank for International Settlements

location: Compartment 4 [450/80/22/04]

Accession 56-66A1039

Miscellaneous Committee Records

Box # File Tile or Subject

23 Combined Liberated Areas Committee, ca. 1945-1946. location:

Compartment 6 [450/80/30/02]

24-26 Treasury Department participation in the Board of Economic Warfare. Box

24 contains a folder entitled “(Board of Economic Warfare): Economic

Defense: Functions Administered by Treasury,” which contains a copy of a

memorandum prepared by Harry D.White for Secretary Morgenthau’s

signature, October 7, 1941, to the Vice President, concerning “Economic

Defense Functions Administered by the Treasury.” Box 25 contains

information on economic warfare in Latin America, 1941-1943. Box 26

contains information on Swedish trade with the Axis, 1942-1943.

location: Compartment 6 [450/80/30/02]

33 Liberated Areas Committee 1945-1946. Also included is a folder on the

Kilgore Committee, a U.S. Senate Subcommittee of the Committee on

Military Affairs, June-December 1945, looking into German economic
197

penetration of neutral countries, elimination of German resources for war,

Germany’s resources for a third world war, and related matters. Included are

published copies of Senate documents, drafts and copies of testimony by

Treasury staff, and related records. location: Compartment 6 [450/80/30/05]

34 Occupied Areas Committee, 1946. Also included is one folder entitled

“Occupied Areas Committee-Country” 1943, that contains files on

Scandinavian countries, the Lowlands, Italy, France, East Indies, China,

Central Europe, and the Balkans. location: Compartment 6 [450/80/30/05]

35 Treasury Department participation in the State-War-Navy Coordinating

Committee, 1945-1947

location: Compartment 6 [450/80/30/06]

62 Inter-Allied Reparations Agency (IARA). Contains folders entitled “IARA:-

Tripartite Commission for the Restitution of Monetary Gold,” [1950-1953];

“IARA-Looted Gold-Restitution and Claims Volume I,” [1943-1947];

“IARA-Looted Gold-Restitution and Claims Volume II,” [1948-1951]; and

“IARA-Looted Gold-Location and Recovery,” [1945-1959]. location:

Compartment 6 [450/80/32/01]

Accession 56-67A245

Country Files

Box # File Title or Subject

8 Economic warfare in French Africa; contains a folder entitled “French AfricaGold,” covering the 1942-1944 period. location: Compartment 6 [450/81/3/01]

10 French North Africa including a folder labeled “F.N.A. Safehaven,” 1945. “

location: Compartment 7 [450/81/3/01]

11 “F.N.A. Trading with the Enemy.” location: Compartment 8 [450/81/3/02]

13 “Tangier-FFC”

“Tangier German Assets”

“Tangier Gold”

“Tangier Proclaimed List” location: Compartment 8[450/81/3/02]

33 Denmark, including folders labeled “Denmark Safehaven & Defrosting

Program (inc. Enemy Property and FFC), 1944-1949 location: Compartment 8

[450/81/4/02]

34 Norway and Sweden, including folders labeled “Norway Gold & Silver (inc.

transactions in Norwegian Accounts); “Norway Foreign Funds Control.

location: Compartment 8 [450/81/4/02]

35 Sweden, including folders labeled “Sweden German Assets,” “Sweden Gold

and Silver (including transactions in Swedish Accounts), Sweden

Negotiations,” “Sweden, Negotiations Swedish Allied 1954,”[ volumes 1 and

2]; “Sweden Safehaven,” and “Sweden War and War Related

Activities(including FFC).”

location: Compartment 8 [450/81/4/03]

36-39 Country files onAlbanian, Baltic States, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Balkans,

Hungary, Poland, Rumania, USSR. Contains information on banks, banking,

foreign assets control (including gold).

location: Compartment 8 [450/81/4/03]

Miscellaneous World War II Records and Studies

Box # File Title
198

66 Censorship Items

Correspondence with Military Intelligence

Economic Survey of German Europe and the Far East

Economic Warfare

Foreign Funds Control location: 450/81/2/04

67 Naval Intelligence

Nazi Industrial War Machine

North Africa

Office of Strategic Services location: 450/81/2/04

Accession 56-67A1804

Country and Area Records 1934-1952

Box # Country

1-2 Austria location: 450/80/34/03

4-10 France location: 450/80/34/04

13-21 Italy location: 450/80/34/07

23 Portugal location: 450/80/35/03

24-25(part) Spain location: 450/80/35/04

25(part)-29 Switzerland location: Compartment 6 [450/80/35/04]

Box 25 contains information on banks and banking, bank investigations, and blocked

assets in the United States.

Box 26 contains information on the Bretton Woods Conference, Foreign Funds Control

activities, and defrosting of Swiss assets.

Box 27 contains the following file titles: German Assets; German Assets-Currie Mission;

German External Assets-Negotiations-Reports & Exhibits; German External Assets Vol.

1-Negotiation Briefing Data; German External Assets Vol. II-Negotiation Briefing Data;

Gold & Silver; Investigations; Mission to the United States; Safehaven.

Boxes 28-29(part) contain information on transactions in Swiss Francs

Box 29(part) contains file “Switzerland: War and War Related Activities”

Special Subject Files

Gold Records 1931-1959

Subject Files

Boxes 49-55; location: Compartment 7 [450/81/1/05]

External Debt Settlements by West Germany 1950-1957

Boxes 58-62(part); location: Compartment 7 [450/81/2/01]

Box 61 contains file GER/1/436 Claims of BIS

Tripartite Commission on German Debts 1951-1953

Boxes 62(part)-63; location: Compartment 7 [450/81/2/02]

Accession 56-68A2809

Area Records

World (WOR), 1946-1959
199

Box# File # File Title

26 WOR/0/100 Financial and Economic Studies and Reports

-Volume I

WOR/2/000 Money, Banks and Banking - Volume I

WOR/2/300 Gold Reports and Statistics - Volume I

location: 450/81/16/06

Europe (EUR), 1941-1959

28 EUR/2/00 Money, Banks and Banking, General (1941-1959)

EUR/3/11 Treasury Policy and Activities - European Trade

and Payments (1942-1959)

EUR/9/00 War and War Related Activities (1941-1946)

location: 450/81/16/06

International Statistics Division

Working Group Records

Box 36 contains file “Gold and Dollar Assets in the U.S. of ERP Countries” 

location: 450/81/17/02

WDR Records

Box 37 contains forms (WDR-22 and WDR-18) relating to reports of gold and

statements of government finances for various countries, including Austria,

Germany, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, and Turkey. location:

450/81/17/02

Foreign Funds Control Activities

Records relating to the Census of American-Owned Assets in Foreign Countries

(TFR-500)

Box 38 contains a subject file relating to the census location: 450/81/17/03

Box 39-contains country files location: 450/81/17/03

Boxes 39(part)-42 (part) contain details regarding certain American property in

various countries location: 450/81/17/03

Boxes 42(part) contains miscellaneous records relating to the TFR-500 Census 

location: 450/81/17/04

Box 43 contains files on the Census of Foreign Owned Assets in the United 

States (TFR-300) location: 450/81/17/04

Box 44 contains various completed FFC forms, 1945-1946

location: 450/81/17/04

Accession 56-69A7584

Legal Staff Records

Country Files ca. 1940-1950 Boxes 1-3 Compartment 4 [450/80/22/06]

Box # File Title

Argentina
200

1 General (1943-1950)

Banking Transactions and Instructions to Banks (1940-1950)

Economic Controls (1941-947)

Shipment of Gold to Argentina (1943-1946)

French Africa

2 General - Volumes I and II (1942-1949)

Banknotes and Shipments of Gold and Currency (1943-1944)

Germany

2 General (1936-1952)

Morgenthau Plan (1944-1945)

Italy

3 General (1946-1948)

Poland

3 Polish Gold Claims Against France (1942-1943)

Sweden

3 General (1948)

Mission to Sweden (1947)

Switzerland

3 General (1941-1947)

Turkey

3 General (1946)

Special Subject Files

Boxes 4-7 contain information on Gold 1933-1959

location: Compartment 4 [450/80/22/07]

General Office Records of the Undersecretary for Monetary Affairs

Budget and Fiscal Records

Box # File Title or Subject

40 Switzerland 1943-1952 location: Compartment 4

[450/80/24/05]

41-46 Swiss, Argentine, and other countries’ banks and central banks,

including information on buying and selling gold. Box 43 also

contains American dealings with the Bank for International

Settlements (1938-1959) and Box 46 contains information on

the War Refugee Board (1944-1945) ca. 1936-1959. location:

Compartment 5 [450/80/24/05]

Accession 56-70A6232

Legal Records

Box 22 Contains information on looted gold; the gold Commission; negotiations with

Switzerland, Portugal, and Sweden for recovery of looted gold; the Swedish Gold Conference, the
201

Bank for International Settlements. circa1946-1954 location: Compartment 9 [450/80/25/07]

Box 24 Swiss Bank Investigations circa 1950s. 

location: Compartment 9 [450/80/26/01]

Country and Area Records

Box 48 Folder “GER/3/15 Gold General 1949-58 vol.1” deals with looted and other gold

matters relating to Germany. Included is a printed copy of Treaties and Other International Acts

Series 2252 “Restitution of Monetary Gold: Submission to an Arbitrator of Certain Claims with

respect to Gold looted by the Germans from Rome in 1943; Agreement between the United States

of America, the United Kingdom, and France, signed April 25, 1951, entered into force April 25,

1951.” 

location: Compartment 9 [450/80/27/02]

Box 53 Germany - Safehaven Agreements and German External Assets 1951-1959

location: Compartment 9 [450/80/27/04]

Box 54 Germany - Looted Gold 1950-1959; contains information on German Assets in the

United States, 1940-59 and U.S. Germany discussions relating to German External

Assets/Safehaven 1954-1959.

location: Compartment 9 [450/27/04]

Box 75-76 Switzerland 1947-1959; contain information about Swiss banking

financial/economic situation 1946-1959.

location: Compartment: 9 [450/80/28/04]

Accession 56-75-101

Foreign Exchange Reporting Section Records

Reports

Box # File Title

29 Balances in earmarked Gold: FRBNY [ Federal Reserve Board New

York] Weekly and Monthly Statements 1937-1947; location:

450/81/6/02

Miscellaneous Subject Files

Box # File Title

39 Balances and Earmarked Gold Held for Foreign Account, Volumes I

and II (1939-1949)

Estimated Gold, Short-Term Dollar, and Long-term Dollar Assets of

Participating Countries (June 1945-November 1948)

Estimated World Gold and Dollar Resources Selected End-Years 1945-

1955 and March 31, 1956

Gold Tables and Capital Movements (1940-1941)

location: 450/81/6/06

Report Files

Box # File Title

42 Estimated Gold and Dollar Resources of Foreign Countries Monthly

Report of NAC (June 1945-March 1967); location: 450/81/6/06
202

Subject File

Bank For International Settlements (BIS)

Box # File Titles

169 BIS/0/00 General, Volumes 1-2 (1947-1969)

BIS/0/75 Meetings and Documents (1954-1969)

BIS/0/98 Letters to Finance Ministers (1945)

BIS/2/00 Looted Gold (1945-1948)

BIS/4/00 Liquidation (1944-1948)

location: Compartment 9 [450/81/12/01]

Legal Staff Records

General Subject Files

War and War Related (World War II) Activities

Box # File Title

237 Authority of Allied Military Command and Government in

Territories Occupied (1943)

Axis Instruments and Decrees Relating to Control of Foreign

Property (1940-1942)

Belgian Financial Matters (1944)

location: Compartment 9 [450/81/15/03]

238 Currency Programs: General, Volumes I -V (1944-1950)

Big Bill Program (1945)

Foreign Currencies (1944-1945)

Legal Background Memoranda re Currency Programs (1934-

1945)

Directives for Treatment of Germany Post SHAEF (1945)

Directives of Other Areas Excluding Germany (1945)

Dutch Decrees (1943-1944)

Economic Warfare (1942-1943)

External Assets Interrogations: General (1944-1946)

External Assets Interrogations: Goering (1945) Volumes I-IV

location: Compartment 9 [450/81/15/03]

239 External Assets Interrogations: Himmler (1945-1946)

External Assets Interrogations: Hitler (by Schroeder and Schaub)

(1945-1946)

External Assets Interrogations: Heuman and Company (1945)

External Assets Interrogations: I.G. Farben (1945)

External Assets Interrogations: Kaltenbrunner (1945)

External Assets Interrogations: Ribbentrop (1945)

External Assets Interrogations: Kreutzer (1946)

External Assets Interrogations: RHSA (Reich Security Office)

(1945)

External Assets Interrogations: Schellenberg (1945)

External Assets Interrogations: Switzerland (1946)

French War Settlement Negotiations-(1946) Volumes I and II

Foreign Economic Policy (1944)

Legal Memoranda (1944-1945)

Netherlands Decrees (1940-1942) -The Netherlands-Occupation
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Decrees- M.E. Locker (1940-1942)

Post War Dutch Problems (1942)

Post War Planning (1942-1943)

location: Compartment 9 [450/81/15/04]

240 Programs for Germany (1944-1945)

Reoccupied Areas: Organizational Procedures (1943)

War Criminals (1944-1945)

War Property Loss Program (1943-1944)

location: Compartment 9 [450/81/15/04]

General

241 Bank For International Settlements (1940-1945)

location: Compartment 9 [450/81/15/04]

242-244 Gold; location: Compartments 9-10 [450/81/15/05]

Accession 56-77- 52 

Assistant General Counsel

Legal Subject Files 1952-1972

Box 5 contains information on Swiss bank secrecy laws.164 Included is a file on a 

1942 Swiss Bank investigation, including a “Final Report: Swiss Bank Investigation” and

a July 3, 1942 memorandum by Bernard Bernstein pertaining to the Swiss investigation. location:

Compartment 6 [450/38/33/07]

Box 6 contains a file of legal memoranda between 1943 and 1957. Included is one, a 16-

page memorandum dated April 21, 1945, regarding the Allied Control Commission and vesting

German Property situated outside of Germany. location: Compartment 6 [450/38/33/07]

Records Declassified but not relocated to an unclassified stack area. Please consult with the staff

in the consultation area in Room 2600 about the location of these records.

Accession 56-69A4707 processing location: 490/39/25-31

International Statistics Division General Records 1944-1959

Alphabetical Subject File Boxes 43-48

Box # File Title

43 Allied Commission on Reparations

Alien Property Custodian

45 Foreign Exchange Controls

Foreign Funds Control, General

Foreign Funds Control, Miscellaneous Blocked Assets

Foreign Funds Control, Regulations

47 Gold and Foreign Exchange Reserves-Tripartite Commission

Looted Gold-Countries

Looted Gold-Miscellaneous

48 Safehaven Deposits in America

Country Files

Germany 1931-1952 Boxes 73-86

 

164 The Swiss Bank secrecy law is part of Article 47 of the comprehensive Swiss Bank Act of 1934.
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Box # File Title

73 Banks and Banking - Volumes I and II

74 Bretton Woods

Cartels (including Trademarks and Patents)

Claims Against - Position Papers

Claims Against - Working Group Documents

75 Claims - Intergovernmental Study Group- Volumes I and II

Communications (including Censorship)

Currency, General - Volumes I and II

Currency - Counterfeit and Captured

76 Decartelization, General

Decartelization-Investigation of Bosch Company

78 Economic and Financial, General - Volumes I and II

External Assets

Farben:

1. Camouflage of External Assets

2. General Aniline and Film American I.G.

3. Hearings and Exhibits to Testimony

4. History of Military Control

79 5. I.G. Chemie

6. Interrogations and Investigations

7. Miscellaneous Materials

8. Reports

9. Standard Oil Case

10. War Crimes (Basic Information and Exhibit List)

11. War Crimes - Investigating Team Materials

Financial Arrangements

80 Foreign Exchange Control

Foreign Funds Control (including SOFINA)

Gold:

1. Currency and Loot Recoveries (Discover and Accounting)

2. Currency and Loot Recoveries (Non-RBK Caches “Closed” Depots)

3. Currency and Loot Recoveries (Problem of Disposition)

4. Looted Holdings and Transfers

5. Prussian Mint Records Concerning Smeltings

6. Records Found and Research Thereon

7. Recovered (Origin and Claims by Countries)

81 Insurance

Interrogations, Miscellaneous

Interrogations - Testimony of Emil Puhl

82 Looted Property, General

Looted Property - Inter-Allied Declaration

Military Government:

1. General Information

2. Investigations

3. Program (Including Allied Control Council)

4. Reports

5. Termination Programs

6. Treasury Participation

83 Policy:
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1. Morgenthau Plan

84 2. Suggestions of Other Agencies

3. Policy Toward, General - Volumes I and II

4. Policy Toward and Negotiations (U.S.)

Property Control

Reparations - Volumes I and II

Restitution

85 Safehaven

Securities (including Dollar Bonds)

86 Treasury Studies:

1. Considerations on the Reorganization of the Germany Currency, Public

Debt, Banking and the Budget

2. Corporations and Other Forms of Business Organizations in Nazi

Germany (Concentration of Capital and Other Developments)

3. Economic Position of Germany

4. German Government Finance

5. How Defeated Germany Rose to Power

Vesting

War Crimes (including Nazi Underground Activities)

Records of the Under Secretary

Country Records

Box 107 - Switzerland

Gold Records

Box 108

Monetary and Stabilization Fund Records, General 1934-1952 Boxes 122-123

Records of Office of Foreign Assets Control (RG 265)

Midway in World War II it became apparent that the United States Government had increasing need for

comprehensive financial information on American property interests in foreign countries, particularly

enemy and enemy-dominated nations, for purposes related to the so-called “freezing controls” administered

by the Treasury Department, to military phases of the war, and to preparations for peace negotiations.

The Foreign Funds Control (FFC), which had been established in the Office of the Secretary, Treasury

Department in April 1940, immediately after the invasion of Norway and Denmark by Germany, and

which in 1941 had taken a census of foreign assets in the United States was given the responsibility for

taking the so-called census of American-owned assets in foreign countries in 1943 to provide the needed

data.

The taking of the census of American-owned assets in foreign countries was one of the many activities of

the FFC in carrying out the responsibilities of the Secretary of the Treasury in the financial warfare

program of the United States Government. In the beginning the FFC was responsible for placing

restrictions on foreign exchange transactions, on the export or withdrawal of gold, silver, coin and

currency, on transfers of credits, securities or any other evidences of ownership or of indebtedness

involving property of the countries or nationals of the countries that had been invaded by the German and

Russian armies. After the United States entered the war the FFC was responsible for severing all financial

and commercial intercourse between the United States and any countries outside the Western hemisphere

that directly or indirectly benefited the Axis, for the prevention of all financial and commercial transactions
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between the United States and any other American Republic that directly or indirectly benefited the Axis,

and for stopping all financial and commercial activity on the part of persons or corporations in the United

States whose influence or activity was deemed inimical to the security of the Western Hemisphere.

With the increase in its functions the FFC was formally established as a separate administrative unit of the

Department, with the status of a bureau and with a director as its head, on September 11, 1942. It

continued in that status until July 15, 1947, when its residual functions, personnel, and records were

transferred to the Treasury Department’s Office of International Finance. An Executive order of August

20, 1948, transferred responsibility for all pending work related to foreign funds control to the Office of

Alien Property, Department of Justice. All records of the FFC, excepting those described below and a few

housekeeping records, were turned over to the Office of Alien Property in October 1948. For descriptions

of those records see the Records of the Office of Alien Property (RG 131) in the Department of Justice

section of this finding aid.

In taking the census of American-owned assets in foreign countries, the FFC utilized the central office and

field organization that had been developed in the activities of its Licensing and Enforcement Divisions in

“freezing” assets of enemy and enemy-dominated nations, in preventing the use of frozen or “blocked”

assets by the Axis, in licensing transactions in such assets, and in investigatory work. The forms on which

the reports of assets owned were to be made were obtainable in the central office in Washington and in the

field at Federal Reserve Banks, and outside the continental United States from the Government officials in

the Territories and possessions or United States consuls. Since the census was to serve the needs of the

whole Government and to eliminate the necessity for recurring or overlapping demands on investors and

others in the nation, the report forms and instructions were adopted after their review by interagency

representatives of the Departments of State and Commerce, the Board of Economic Warfare (late the

Foreign Economic Administration) and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. The

proposed forms and instructions also were discussed with representatives of banks, industry, and insurance

companies to insure that accurate and useful data could be obtained economically and expeditiously.

The basic report form used in taking the census was designated “TFR-500.” The above-mentioned census

taken in 1941 by the FFC of foreign assets in the United States was reported on forms known as “TFR

300,”165 and a census taken by the FCC in 1948 of assets blocked in the United States as of June 1, 1948,

was reported on a “TFR 600" form.166 These forms were turned over to the Office of Alien Property,

The census of American-owned assets in foreign countries on the TFR 500 forms was announced on June

3, 1943, through the issuance of Special Regulation No. 1, under Executive orders 8389, as amended, and

9193. Detailed instructions concerning the reporting requirements were stated in Public Circular No. 22

which was issued on July 1, 1943, and amended from time to time.

The basic requirements as to liability for filing the Form TFR-500 reports were very broad but certain

exceptions and exemptions were provided. In the words of Public Circular No. 22, reports were required

to be filed by “(1) every person subject to the jurisdiction of the United States having at the close of

business on May 31, 1943, any interest whatsoever, direct or indirect, in any property in a foreign country

on such date and by (2) every person subject to the jurisdiction of the United States with whom any foreign

organization was allied on May 31, 1943.”

The word “person” was defined to include an individual, partnership, association, corporation, or other

organization. The following were considered as subject to the jurisdiction of the United States:

 

165 The alphabetical index to the TFR-300 Reports, the TFR-300 Reports, the TFR-300 Reports (Series C1), and TFR-300 Reports correspondence were legally destroyed in July 1987 after having been appraised as

disposable by NARA and approved for destruction by the Department of Justice. 
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1. Any citizen of the United States whether in the United States or in a foreign country.

2. Any corporation or other organization created or organized under the laws of the United States, or any

State, Territory, district, or possession thereof.

3. Any individual resident in the United States on May 31, 1943, including any individual continuously

within the United States for 3 months next preceding that date, and

4. Any person not otherwise subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to the extent that on May 31,

1943, such person had any branch, office, or representative within the United States.

Certain overall exceptions were made to the foregoing general provisions, to the extent that the person

came within the following categories on or after May 31, 1943, and remained therein until the final

reporting date:

1. Citizens of the United States in enemy or enemy-occupied territory.

2. Members of the armed forces of the United States serving outside the continental United States, and

3. Officers or employees of foreign governments and members of immediate families of such persons,

provided they were not citizens of the United States.

Subsequently (as of March 23, 1945) citizens of the United States in enemy or enemy-occupied territory

were required to report as soon as consular offices were opened in such territory.

Special forms, all, bearing the TFR-500 number, were provided for different classes of reporters. Series AI was for the use of individuals, series A-II for corporations and other organizations, series A-III for

executors, administrators, or trustees, and series A-IV for custodians and nominees in this country who

held property for persons not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Each of these forms called for

data with respect to the reporter and for a summary by countries of the reporter’s foreign property.

Series B was to be used by all reporters. This form contained a schedule of 37 property types with spaces

in which the total required value of property of each type in a given jurisdiction was to be entered. 

Separate forms had to be filed with relation to each jurisdiction in which the reporter had any property

required to be reported. On the reverse side of the form the property was to be described in some detail,

except for property in class A, Interests in Allied Foreign Organizations, which was to be described in

series C and C supplement forms.

Public Circular No. 22 contained a complete description of property classes and types. These descriptions

were sufficiently broad to include all types of property. The following exceptions were specified:

1. Repudiated currency and obligations;

2. Claims against a United States branch of a foreign person;

3. Personal furnishings and equipment; and

4. Goods in transit.

The circular was so worded to include certain special types of contracts and to exclude all others.

Property damaged, destroyed, or seized at any time between January 1, 1938 and May 31, 1943, as a result

of war or a “scorched-earth” policy carried on by any country, or through any confiscatory action or duress

by a country thta on May 31, 943, was at war with the United States, or was occupied by such country was

reportable.

 

166 The TFR-600 Reports and related records were legally destroyed in July and November 1987 after

having been appraised as disposable by NARA and approved for destruction by the Department of Justice.
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General exemptions from reporting were provided as follows:

1. Property sold or otherwise disposed of or seized, confiscated, destroyed, or lost before the owner became

subject to the jurisdiction of the United States;

2. Property of any person whose total holdings in all foreign countries had an aggregate value less than

$10,000, except for foreign bonds, payable by their terms in United States dollars, and interests in allied

foreign organizations, license agreements, franchises and concessions, and certain contracts, all of which

were reportable regardless of value; and

3. Property of any person in any one country if the holdings in that country had an aggregate value of less

than $1,000 except again that foreign bonds payable by their terms in United States dollars and interests in

allied foreign organizations, license agreements, franchises and concessions, and certain contracts were all

required to be reported regardless of value.

Property was deemed to be foreign when at the close of business on May 31, 1943, it came within one of

the following categories:

1. Tangible property located in a foreign country;

2. Intangible property issued or created by or constituting an obligation of a foreign country or a person

within a foreign country; and

3. Currency and coin, securities, and negotiable instruments for the payment of money issued or created by

the United States, or an agency or person therein, if the property or evidence was located abroad or was

held through a foreign custodian.

Because of wartime conditions the dates as of which property was to be valued necessarily varied

according to the country in which the property was located. In general, property in continental Europe was

to be valued as of August 1, 1939, while property in China, Japan, and Southeastern Asia was to be valued

as of December 1, 1941. In other words, property in enemy and enemy-occupied countries was governed

by valuation dates so fixed that data would be available and would be affected only to a minor extent by

the war. Property in other parts of the world was to be valued as of May 31, 1943. In all cases, only

property actually or presumptively held at close of business on May 31, 1943, was reportable. Values were

reportable in two columns, the first to be the cost of face value and the second to be the book, market, or

estimated value. Cost was defined as original cost to the person reporting regardless of the date on which

incurred, and without inclusion of interest or carrying charges or deduction for depreciation, obsolescence,

depletion, or revaluation, but excluding the cost of any portion of the property disposed of before May 31,

1943. Face value instead of cost was requested relating to securities and mortgages. Values expressed in

terms of foreign currencies were convertible into dollars at rates specified in Public Circular No. 22. If the

rate for any jurisdiction was not included in the table, reporters were instructed to use the latest rate before

May 31, 1943, as generally quoted by foreign exchange dealers.

The data collected on the Form TFR-500’s were analyzed and published in 1947 as a Treasury Department

bulletin entitled Census of American-Owned Assets in Foreign Countries. According to this publication

approximately 220,000 reports were filed by individuals, corporations, fiduciaries, and others liable under

the reporting requirements. The reports were filed in duplicate with the Treasury Department in

Washington or with the appropriate representatives of the Foreign Funds Control in the field or abroad. 

Those submitted elsewhere than to the central office of the FFC ultimately were forwarded to Washington.

 Most of the reports were filed in the period 1943-1945 but some amended reports were made after that

date voluntarily or upon demand from the Treasury Department. The reporting requirements were

suspended with the revocation of Public Circular No.22, as amended, on June 28, 1946.

The Treasury Department retained both the original and duplicate reports and both collections were

accessioned by the National Archives. The original reports in the “A” series were filed alphabetically
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within the four sub-series, and their related original “B” and “C” reports were filed with the appropriate

series “A” reports. Although the requirements specified that the reports were to be filed in duplicate,

exhibits were nevertheless frequently filed in single copy only. In such cases the exhibits generally were

associated with the related original form report. The duplicate TFR-500's were not arranged in the same

manner as the original filings. The chief difference being that the related series “B” and “C” reports were

not associated with the series “A” reports but were maintained in an arrangement by country and

thereunder alphabetically. Because the original and duplicate reports were arranged differently and

because the only duplicates that were used as the “work copies” show the conversion of foreign currency

values into United States dollars, it was decided to retain the entire collection intact.

TFR-500 Original Reports Series A-I (Reports by Individuals) 1943-1945 (Entry 1)

A typical file consists of the original signed copy of the Series A-I “Summary Report,”

and related copies (originals, usually) of Series B “Detailed Property Report” with respect to each

foreign country in which reportable property was located and of Series C “Report of Interests in

Primary Allied Organizations.” Also included in some case files are letters received and copies of

letters sent by the FFC concerning the filing and acceptability of the reporting forms. The Series

A-I reports are usually stamped to indicate place and date of receipt. Those filled by the FFC on

the basis of information furnished by the individual are marked to indicate that fact.

The Series A-I reports are one-page documents of four parts. Parts A and B give

information concerning persons reporting (name, address, citizenship status, nationalization data)

and a summary of property in foreign countries (from the Series B report), respectively. Part C

indicates name of person preparing the document if other than the person who owns the property

or by one of his “regular employees.” Part D is the affidavit portion of the report.

The Series B “Detailed Property Report,” submitted for each country or “jurisdiction” in

which there was reportable property, and filed with the related Series A-I report contain

information on the cost or face value and on the book, market or estimated value “as required” for

each of the several types of property held as of May 31, 1943, and on total indebtedness to foreign

persons that is secured by property reported on the form, and descriptions of property items of

types specified in instructions for submitting the report. Also reported are names, addresses, and

citizenship of each person other than the reporting individual who has any interest whatsoever in

any item of property listed (with certain exceptions), including any indebtedness secured by the

property.

The Series B report form (as well as the Series C form mentioned below) also requested

descriptions of circumstances if certain types of property were “believed to have been damaged,

destroyed, or seized between January 1, 1938, and May 31, 1943, as a result of war or a ‘scorchedearth’ policy carried on by any country at war with the United States.” Instructions on the use of

the Series B form, however, stated that reports did not in any way constitute a registry of claims

against enemy or enemy-occupied countries.

The Series C “Reports on Interests in Primary Allied Organizations,” submitted for each

such organization (including each foreign branch) and for each foreign country or “jurisdiction”

contain the name and address of the persons reporting and of the organization, information on the

type of organization its “chief types of business,” the principal properties, location of factories,

names of directors and other data relating to ownership and interrelationships with other foreign

organizations. Attachments such as statements of assets and liabilities are found with some of the

Series C reports. Arranged alphabetically by name of persons shown on the Series A-I reports.

Boxes 1-458 location: 450/69/17/02
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TFR-500 Original Reports Series A II (By Organizations) 19431945 (Entry 2)

The records in this series are comparable to those described in Entry I in physicaly

characteristics. The related Series B and C reports (usually originals) are physically attached to the

primary document, the Series II “Summary Report by Organization,” as are related documents

such as correspondence, statements of assets and liabilities, profit and loss statements, etc., and the

reports are usually stamped to indicate date and place of receipt. The Series A-II reports are onepage documents of four parts. Parts A and B give information concerning the reporting

organization (name, address, type of organization, statement of gross assets as of May 31, 1943,

names of directors, etc.), and a summary of property in foreign countries (from the Series B

report), respectively. Part C indicates name of person or persons preparing the report if other than

“regular officers or employees of the reported.” The series B and C reports filed with the Series

A-II reports are comparable in content to those described in Entry 1. An occasional Series C

Supplement “Report of Interests in Secondary Allied Organizations” is found with the files. 

Arranged alphabetically by names of organizations shown on the Series A-II reports.

Boxes 459-575 location: 450/69/26/04

TFR-500 Original Reports Series AIII (By Executors or Trustees) 1943-1945 (Entry 3)

The Series A-III reports are one-page documents of four parts comparable to those on the Series

A-I and A-II reports. Information concerning the estate or trust reported on includes name, date of

creation, statement of gross domestic and foreign assets, “name, address and citizenship of each

person having any power of appointment, or any other right or power to direct or control the

distribution of the corpus or income,” name, address, and citizenship of each beneficiary, other

than unknown beneficiaries, and full description of any power of revocation. As in the case of

Entries 1 and 2 there are separate Series B and C reports for each foreign country in which

property reported on is located. Arranged alphabetically by name of estate or trust.

Boxes 576-652 location: 450/69/28/07

TFR-500 Original Reports Series A-IV (By Custodians or Nominees) 1943-1945

(Entry 4)

Reports on property (primarily securities) held by American custodians and nominees of

foreign assets on behalf of persons resident in foreign countries, with supporting documents

comparable to those found in the series A-I, A-II, and A-III case files. Information concerning the

“account” includes name of account, and name, address, and citizenship of each owner not subject

to the jurisdiction of the United States. Information concerning the custodian or nominee includes

name, address, citizenship or political entity under which organization was effected, and

relationship to account. Arranged alphabetically by name of account.

Boxes 653-701 location: 450/69/30/04

Boxes 688-695 Swiss Banks location: 450/69/31/02

TFR-500 Duplicate Reports Series AI, AII, and AIII Reports (Entry 5)

A single alphabetical file of the duplicate copies of the Series A-I, A-II, and A-III reports

described in Entries 1, 2, and 3. This series consists only of the form reports specified, there being

no related papers attached to the reports. The duplicate copies were used as work copies in the

Treasury Department in converting foreign currency values into United States dollars, for

adjusting reported value figures, and for statistical purposes. Arranged alphabetically by name of

reporter, irrespective of type of series.

Boxes 702-883 location: 450/69/31/04
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TFR-500 Duplicate Reports Series A IV (Entry 6)

Duplicate copies of the Series A-IV reports described in Entry 4. These duplications were

used for the same purposes as those indicated in Entry 5. The reports are without attached or

related documents. Arranged alphabetically by names of accounts.

Boxes 884-895A location: 450/69/35/02

TFR-500 Duplicate Reports Series AI Unnecessary Reports AI-IVS 1943-1945

(Entry 7)

Duplicates of original reports apparently excluded from statistical analyses made by the

FFC as reports that were not necessary under announced requirements. The Series A-I reports are

filed in one alphabetical sequences; the Series A-II, A-III, and A-IV reports are intermixed and are

in no apparent order.

Boxes 1216-1226 location: 450/69/35/04

TFR-500 Duplicate Reports Series B-Detailed Property Reports 1943-1945

(Entry 8)

Duplicate copies of the Series B reports that are filed with the related original reports in A

series reports. Arranged alphabetically by country, thereunder by number in a series apparently

assigned in the statistical analysis work done by the FFC.

Boxes 896-1215 location: 450/69/35/05

Boxes 1192-1194 Switzerland location: 450/70/6/05

TFR-500 Duplicate Reports Series C-Reports of Interests in Primary Allied Organizations

1943-1945 (Entry 9) 

Duplicate copies of the Series C reports that are filed with the related original reports in A

series reports. Filed with some of the reports are a FFC Form 171 “Adjustment Sheet” apparently

used by the FFC in its statistical analysis work. Arranged alphabetically by country, thereunder by

name of primary allied organization.

Boxes 1227-1254 location: 450/70/7/02

Boxes 1248-1249 Switzerland location: 450/70/7/06

TFR-500 Duplicate Reports Series C Supplement Reports of Interests in Secondary Allied 

Organizations 1943-1945 (Entry 10) 

Duplicate copies of the Series C reports that filed with the related original records in the A

Series described in preceding entries. Filed with some of the reports are a FFC Form 170

“Analysis Sheet” apparently used by the FFC in its statistical analysis work. Arranged

alphabetically by country, thereunder by name of secondary allied organization.

Boxes 1255-1275 location: 450/70/7/06

TFR-500 Statistical Control Sheets 1945 (Entry 11)

This series contains two groups of control sheets, both of which may have been produced

in the course of preparing the bulletin referred to in the introduction. One group of sheets (on FFC

form 144) title “Summary Control, Series A-B (I, II, and IV)” bears the following typewritten

identification: “Alphabetical index of United States corporations having foreign

subsidiaries/November 15, 1945.” The data on the sheets appear to be based on information

reported in the Series “C” reports. The other and larger group of sheets (on FFC forms 141) bears
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the following typewritten identification: “Listing, by Showing Worth of Foreign Companies/Nov.

15, 1945.” The sheets, though perforated, are connected and some in the latter group are in

duplicate with carbon paper between the copies. Entries on the sheets in the first group are

alphabetical by name of corporation; those in the second by number assigned in the FFC.

Boxes 1276-1277 location: 450/70/8/02

Department of Justice Records

General Records of the Department of Justice (RG 60)

The Department of Justice (DOJ) performed functions during World War II that fundamentally did not

differ from those performed in peacetime, but the Department’s work was nevertheless greatly influenced

by the war. It had large responsibilities for enforcing the Federal laws; it rendered legal advice and

opinions to the President and the heads of Government agencies; it investigated violations of most Federal

legislation; it prosecuted offenders against Federal laws and otherwise represented the interests of the

United States in the courts; and it supervised the activities of the United States attornies and marshals in

the various judicial districts.

With entrance of the United States into the war the Department became primarily concerned with the

preservation of the internal security of the country, the protection of civil rights, and the maintenance of

law and order that were essential to the successful prosecution of the war. It clarified many wartime legal

problems through formal opinions and advice on the complex questions of laws involved in making and

carrying out war plans. The Department also gave close attention to the drafting of legislation needed to

safeguard internal security and to promote the activities of other agencies and to the preparation of

Executive orders and proclamations implementing the powers of the President for carrying on the war.

Close cooperation existed between the Department of Justice and many other agencies in handling

particular war problems. Several units of the Department cooperated with the Board of Economic

Warfare and its successor, the Foreign Economic Administration, in handling problems presented by

cartels.

Within the Department of Justice a War Division was established on May 19, 1942, to bring together in

one division a number of nonprosecutive and noninvestigative activities having special relationship to the

war that had hitherto been scattered among several of the Department’s organizational units. The War

Division’s chief predecessor was the Special Defense Unit, which had originated in April 1940 as the

Neutrality Laws Unit in the Office of the Attorney General. It was continued in the War Division as the

Special War Policies Unit. The Division was abolished on December 28, 1945.

For some 15 months after the establishment of the War Division the Special War Policies Unit was

responsible for directing and coordinating the activities of the Department of Justice relating to espionage,

sabotage, sedition, subversive activities, and the registration of foreign agents. This Unit was abolished

when the War Division was reorganized on August 28, 1943. Its functions in relation to the laws against

subversive activities were transferred to the Department’s Criminal Division. Its other functions were

distributed among several of the other sections of the War Division. The records of the Unit and its

predecessor are in Classes 146, World War II, and 148, War Policy, of the Department’s Classified Central

File.

On April 21, 1942, all nonlitigation functions that the Department of Justice had performed in the

enforcement of the Trading with the Enemy Act, as amended by the First War Powers Act, were

transferred by Executive order to the Office of the Alien Property Custodian (APC). The Alien Property

Section was established in May 1942 as part of the War Division to represent the Office of Alien Property

Custodian in all litigation in which it was interested. The Section also represented the United States in
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matters arising from the administration of foreign funds control by the Treasury Department, and it rended

legal advice to the APC and the Treasury Department on problems related to alien property and foreign

funds control and helped to formulate legislative recommendations. The cases handled by the Alien

Property Section dealt largely with admiralty, copyrights, estates, enemy banks, patent problems, and suits

against the APC for the return of property or the payment of debts. These activities were transferred to the

Claims Division in December 1945. Most of the records of the Section, consisting of legal studies,

interoffice memoranda, and court briefs, were filed in the Central Classified File, in Class 9-21, Alien

Property, and Class 146, World War II.

The Economic Warfare Section, which originated as the Economic Section of the Antitrust Division in

1942, was transferred to the War Division on August 28, 1943. Its chief functions were to collect

industrial information, prepare reports on enemy or enemy-controlled industrial organizations, and aid in

making this information available for use in the economic warfare efforts of the Allies. In fiscal year 1944

the Bureau of the Budget designated the Section as the central agency of the Government to carry out

research in the field of international cartels.

Among the objectives of the Economic Warfare Section were 1) to discover and analyze important

intercompany connections among European firms and the control of these firms by Germans; 2) to analyze

the means by which German control could be eliminated; 3) to examine the legal problems that might arise

because of the use of intercompany connections by the German government as a means of espionage and

economic warfare; 4) to analyze intercompany agreements between foreign and American companies in

order to determine their effects on American trade and commerce; and 5) to examine the effect of cartel

agreements among foreign companies upon the trade, commerce, and business structure of Latin America

and other countries.

In carrying out these objectives the Economic Warfare Section engaged in studies of particular aspects of

international cartels with emphasis on the techniques employed by the Germans to penetrate the economies

of other countries, especially the United States and Latin American counties; participated in the

formulation of plans and prepared guides for the investigations of industrial combines in enemy or enemyheld countries during the period of occupation; and made studies of the efforts of enemy interests to obtain

control of important assets in conquered areas and to screen their efforts in order to avoid the economic

consequences of defeat. The Section also made analyses of the French, Swedish, Swiss, and other banking

institutions that might have helped to establish and maintain German economic influence outside of

Germany. The Section was dissolved at the end of 1945. Its records were kept as a separate group and not

filed with the Central Classified Files. 

Records of the Antitrust Division

Records of the Economic Warfare Section

Central Correspondence 1940-1944 (labeled as Entry 285A)

Boxes 1-4 location: 230/30/5/04

Subject File (arranged alphabetically by subject) (labeled as Entry 285B)

Boxes 5-226 location: 230/30/50/05

Records of the Special War Policies Unit

Subject File (labeled as Entry SWPU)

Arranged alphabetically by subject

Boxes 1-22 location: 230/31/5/01

Miscellaneous Material Boxes 23-26 (labeled as Entry SWPU)
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Boxes 23-26 location: 230/31/5/05

Office Files (labeled as Entry SWPU)

Arranged under file designation 148-War Policy.

Boxes 27-80 location: 230/31/5/05

Records of the Latin American Section

The Latin American Section acted as the technical legal staff of the U.S. representative on

the Emergency Advisory Committee for Political Defense, also known as the Inter-American

Advisory Committee for Political Defense. The Committee was created as an advisory body by

Resolution XVII of the Third Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the American

Republics, held at Rio de Janeiro, January 15-28, 1942. The Resolution provided that the

Governing Board of the Pan American Union (PAU) consult the Governments of the American

Republics, determine the functions of the Committee, prepare the regulations for governing its

activities, and fix its budget of expenditures.

The report of the Special Committee of the Governing Board of the PAU was approved by

the Board at its session on February 25, 1942, and was sent to the 21 Governments with the

proposed regulations. The Governing Board gave approval of these two documents on April 6,

1942, and named the Governments of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, United States, Mexico, Uruguay,

and Venezuela to be members of the Commiittee who would represent the 21 nations. Carl B.

Spaeth and William Sanders were successively members from the United States.

In each country a liaison officer was named to serve the members of the Committee

headquartered in Montevideo. Lawrence A. Knapp, Special Assistant to the Attorney General,

was Liaison Office for the United States. Miguel A. de Capriles, Special Assistant to the Attorney

General, was assigned to the staff of the Liaison Officer for the United States. He also served as

Assistant Chief of the Latin American Section. The Committee for Political Defense attempted to

establish a solid front of the Americas against common external dangers. The Committee

recommended ways that the Governments of the Americas, acting individually and as a group,

could prevent invasions by Axis powers or their nationals, agents, or sympathizers.

Reports of Sessions of Consultative Visit[s] to the U.S. 1942-1945 (Entry 286)

Consists chiefly of reports of the sessions of the consultative visit of the Advisory

Committee for Political Defense to the United States, with annexes and exhibits for each session. 

The reports of the eight technical sessions related to the following subjects: 1) Registration and

Surveillance of Alients; 2) Detentional Internment, Expulsion, and Repatriation of Dangerous Axis

Nationals; 3) Entry and Exit of Persons, and Clandestine Crossing of Frontiers; 4) Control of

Organizations and Propaganda; 5) Prevention of Abuses of Nationality; 6) Protection of Plants and

Facilities Against Sabotage; 7) Protection of Ships, Ports, and Shipping Information; and, 8)

Control of International Communications. There are also reports on inspection trips relating to

plant protection and port security and on “Non-Technical Events.” Arranged chronologically by

date of session and thereunder numerically by numbers of annexes and exhibits.

Boxes 1-3 location: 230/30/49/05

Records Relating to Consultative Visit[s] 1942-1945 (Entry 287)

Correspondence, memoranda, press releases, photographs, and negtatives relating to

arrangements for events, and the general report on the Consultative Visit. Arranged by subject.

Boxes 1-2 location: 230/30/49/06
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“Previously Classified Files” From Boxes 1-17 [which boxes 1-17 not identified!]

Boxes 1-2 location: 230/30/49/05

Country Files (Entry 288)

Correspondence of Miguel A. de Capriles with other Government officials, memoranda,

and other records relating to the work of the Committee in regard to particular Latin American

countries and the United States. Many of the records are in Spanish, French, and Portuguese. 

Arranged alphabetically by name of country.

Boxes 1-9 location: 230/30/49/06

Subject File of Miguel A. De Capriles (Entry 289)

Correspondence with other Governments agencies, memoranda, reference material, and

other records relating to such subjects as anti-Semitism; aliens, including citizenship, repatriation,

and dealing with enemy aliens; annual reports and activities of the Committee; refugees; the Dies

Committee (House Un-American Activities Committee); sabotage; intelligence operations;

propaganda; and security of ports. Arranged alphabetically by subject with a separate section at

the end on port and shipping security arranged alphabetically by subject or name of country.

Boxes 1-13 location: 230/30/50/01

Reference Material (Entry 290)

Arranged chronologically.

Boxes 1-3 location: 230/30/50/03

Resolutions of the Emergency Advisory Committee for Political Defense (Entry 291)

Boxes 1-3 location: 230/30/50/03

Administrative File (Entry 292)

Boxes 1-4 location: 230/30/50/03

Records Relating to the InterDepartmental Security Service Committee (Entry 293)

Box 1 location: 230/30/50/04

Department of Justice Central Files

Classified Central Files 1914- (NARA’s holdings basically end in 1939, with the

exception of File Classification 146) The records are arranged in numerically designated classes,

each of which covers some general subject based either upon a specific legislative act or group of

related acts or upon specific functions assigned to the Department. NARA has custody of most

Class 146 files for the World War II period. Class 146 primarily deals with World War II matters.

 Classes 146-154 were created during World War II to provide for records relating to certain

specific problems that arose during that period. For access to many post-1939 case files which are

indexed in the two series of indexes below, the researcher will have to contact the Department of

Justice Records Officer.

Class 146-39 Trading with the Enemy Act Violations

Boxes 1-12 location: 230/19/4/06

General Index to Classified Central Files 1928-1951
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Arranged alphabetically by name of individuals, organizations, and other entities.

Boxes 1-1229 location: 230/6/02/09

Boxes 1230-2060 location: 230/B/08/02

Subject Index to Various Classified Central Files (Entry 1001) circa 1925-1980

Arranged alphabetically by subject.167

Boxes 1-137 location 230/32/21/02

Records of the Office of Alien Property (RG 131)

The World War II Office of Alien Property Custodian, also know as APC, was established within the

Office for Emergency Management by an Executive order of March 11, 1942. By an Executive order of

April 21, 1942, there were transferred to it the functions, personnel, and property of the Alien Property

Division, which had been established in the Department of Justice by the Attorney General on December

9, 1941, to handle certain enemy property responsibilities that resulted from the entrance of the United

States into the war.

An Executive order of July 6, 1942, defined in detail the powers and duties of the new Office of Alien

Property Custodian and clarified the distinction between its authority and that of the Secretary of Treasury

in relation to alien property. The order gave to the Secretary of the Treasury authority over foreign-owned

properties that constituted general purchasing power and required no active management, such as cash,

bullion, bank deposits, and securities. To the Custodian it gave authority over types of foreign-owned

property that were productive resources requiring active management, such as business enterprises, patents,

copyrights, trademarks, and ships. An Executive order of June 18, 1945, extended the jurisdiction of the

Custodian to cover all property of whatever nature in the United States owned by Germany or Japan or

nationals of those countries, but the earlier limitation of its authority with respect to some types of property

of other enemy countries or their nationals was not changed.

An Executive order of October 14, 1946, terminated the Office of Alien Property Custodian and

transferred its functions, funds, personnel, records, and property (except those connected with property in

the Philippine Islands) to the Department of Justice, in which it became the Office of Alien Property.

Leo T. Crowley held the position of Custodian from 1942 to 1944 and James E. Markham, from 1944 to

1946.

An important collection of records within the record group are those created by the Foreign Funds Control

during World War II. The Foreign Funds Control was organized in April 1940 to administer the authority

assigned to the Treasury Department by an Executive order of April 10, 1940, placing restrictions on

transactions in foreign exchange; the export or withdrawal of gold, silver, coin, and currency; and transfers

of credit, securities, or any other evidences of ownership or of indebtedness involving property of the

countries or nationals of the countries that had been invaded by German and Soviet armies. After the entry

of the United States into the war the scope of the Control’s activity widened to include (1) the severing of

all financial and commercial intercourse between the United States and the Axis and Axis-dominated

countries; (2) the prevention of all financial and commercial intercourse between the United States and any

countries outside the Western Hemisphere that directly or indirectly benefited the Axis; (3) the prevention

 

167Also known as the Attorney General’s Subject Index. An example: Under “Nazi,” card #26, there is a

March 5, 1947, reference to heirless assets in the United States of Nazi victims. The card indicates that the State

Department will address Governor Thomas Dewey of New York to try to get cooperation between the New York

legislature and the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees. The Card references DOJ case file 9-21-012, which

is not in NARA’s custody.
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of all financial and commercial transactions between the United States and any other American Republic

that directly or indirectly benefited the Axis; and (4) the stopping of all financial and commercial activity

on the part of persons or corporations in the United States whose influence or activity was deemed inimical

to the security of the Western Hemisphere.

The Executive order of April 10, 1940, broadened by subsequent amendments, enumerated the countries

with which unlicensed financial and commercial intercourse should be prohibited. A Presidential

proclamation of July 17, 1941, authorized the Secretary of State, in conjunction with the Administrator of

Export Control, and the Coordinator of Commercial and Cultural Relations Between the American

Republics, to prepare and maintain a “blacklist,” officially known as the Proclaimed List of Certain

Blocked Nationals, naming all persons and business concerns whose activities were deemed to be in the

interest or behalf of the Axis nations or against the interest of national defense.

On July 6, 1942, the President issued an Executive order clarifying the respective jurisdictions of the

Secretary of the Treasury (acting through the Foreign Funds Control) and the Alien Property Custodian

(APC). This order authorized the Secretary to handle (1) all dollar balances, bullion, and securities of

governments or nationals except those belonging to an enemy business; (2) all property of the occupied

and neutral countries and their nationals except those particular business enterprises which the APC

determined that he must in the national interest assume control; (3) all transactions or business dealing with

countries frozen under the Executive order of April 10, 1940, and its amendments; and (4) all other phases

of freezing control. The order stipulated that if the Secretary of the Treasury should have occasion to vest

any property (other than the assets of foreign governments and central banks), such property should be

vested in the APC.

The Foreign Funds Control was abolished on July 15, 1947, and its residual functions, personnel, and

records were transferred to the Treasury Department’s Office of International Finance. An Executive order

of August 20, 1948, transferred responsibility for all work that still remained to be done with foreign funds

control to the Office of Alien Property, Department of Justice.

PRINTED SOURCES

The Alien Property Custodian: A Legislative Chronological History and Bibliography of the

Trading with the Enemy Act, 50 U.S. Code App. 1-40, and the Operations of the Office of Alien

Property Custodian, 1917-1952. U.S. Senate, Committee on the Judiciary (82d Congress, 2d

Session). [A basic document which can be used as a general legislative and chronological history

and a bibliographic guide to all the published authoritative material pertaining to the Alien

Property Custodian and the administration of the Trading With the Enemy Act.]

RECORDS

The following records of the Office of Foreign Funds Control of the Treasury Department, 1940-47, were

transferred to the Office of Alien Property Custodian.

Records Created by the Foreign Funds Control

Foreign Funds Control Subject Files 1942-60

This series consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports, circulars, investigative

reports, general licenses, tabulations, proclaimed lists, foreign documents, and other records

relating to the major activities of the Foreign Funds Control during World War II. The files touch

on such subjects as foreign assets control; the Safehaven program; freezing controls; defrosting

activities; the denazification program; German bankers; Latin American currency problems; gold;

and, financial activities involving many countries, including all the major neutral countries. The

records are arranged alphabetically by subject.
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Boxes 1-511 location 230/38/9/04

Box # Files Pertaining to:

19-20 Argentina location: 230/38/10/03

27 Axis Assets in Neutral Countries, Concealment of location:

230/38/10/05

29-34 Banks, Foreign location: 230/38/10/06

37-38 Belgium location: 230/38/11/02

51-52 British Embassy location: 250/38/11/06

83 Currency location: 230/38/13/03

84 Currency-Axis-Fascist Currency Lists; location: 230/38/13/03

95 Defrosting Conference Bltns.; location: 230/38/13/06

133-134 Discussion of FFC Documents (i.e., explanation of all the documents

governing the activities of the FFC); location: 230/38/15/06

135 Four Leading Spanish Banks; location: 230/38/15/06

135-140 France location: 230//38/15/06

140-142 France, North Africa location: 230/38/16/01

142 France, West Africa location: 230/38/16/02

169-170 German Banks (Biographies) location: 230/38/17/04

170-171 Germany (General File) location: 230/38/17/04

171 Germany (List of dangerous Germans); location: 230/38/17/04

172 Germany (Denazification Program); location: 230/38/17/05

172-173 Germany (Selected Financial Laws): location: 230/38/17/05

173-174 Germany (Property in) location: 230/38/17/05

177 Gold location: 230/38/17/06

179 Greece, Defrosting of Greek Assets; location: 230/38/17/07

198-210 Hoffman, La Roche location: 230/38/18/06

225-228 Italy location: 230/38/20/01

307-310 Netherlands location: 230/38/24/01

315-316 Non Transactional Communications between Germany and the rest of

the world; location: 230/38/24/03

316-317 North Africa location: 230/38/24/04

318-320 Norway location: 230/38/24/05

346 Portugal (Aid to Axis); location: 230/38/25/07

347-352 Proclaimed Lists location: 230/38/26/01

381-392 Safehaven Project location: 230/38/27/05

424-425 Spain location: 230/38/29/05

426-430 Special Blocked Nationals; location: 230/38/29/06

434-436 State Department location: 230/38/30/01

445-447 Sweden location: 230/38/30/05

447-460 Switzerland location: 230/38/30/06

477 Turkey (Includes: Gold and Currency Markets, references to German

gold, possibly looted gold entering Turkey) location: 230/38/32/02

Docket Files 1942-60

This series contains correspondence, memoranda, applications, Alien Property Custodian

reports, FFC reporting forms; investigation reports, customs reports, FBI reports and

correspondence, and other records of investigations of activities that appeared to be in violation of

freezing regulations, and financial activities outside the United States that tended to benefit the

enemy. Among those investigated were the American Bosch Company, the American Civil
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Liberties Union, Anheuser Busch Company, Baron Edouard De Rothschild, Dow Chemical,

General Analine and Film Company, the German American Bund, Hugo Stinnes Corporation,

Kawasaki Company, Serge Rubinstein, UFA Films, Mitsubishi, and the Yokohama Specie Bank. 

The records are arranged numerically by docket number. An alphabetical listing, giving docket

number, is in the first box.

Boxes 1-248 location: 230/38/33/07

Foreign Funds Control Investigative Reports 1942-60 

This series consists of investigative reports and exhibits. The investigations were of firms

and individuals engaged in illegal financial transaction; transactions, while not illegal, which

caused suspicions regarding loyalty; and, investigations pertaining to blocking actions and the

proclaimed lists. The investigations involved foreign exchange, securities, ships, commercial

enterprises, merchandise, diamonds, jewelry, artwork, and stamps. The files of several field

offices, ncluding New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, DC, and San Francisco are

contained in this series. The records are arranged by an alpha-numeric scheme. The first box

contains an alphabetical listings of the cases.

Boxes 1-39 location: 230/38/45/05

The following records were created or received by the Alien Property Custodian:

Orders

Vesting orders, supervisory orders, and general orders were the three basic forms of

control used by the APC and the Office of Alien Property. Vesting orders were the instrument

used in the seizure of property or interests in property described in the order. During World War II

over 5,000 vesting orders were issued by APC, vesting some 500 business enterprises, banks, and

insurance companies; over 50,000 patents and copyrights; and thousands of pieces of property and

assets. By July 1, 1952, over 13,000 more vesting orders were issued. The vested property was

returned or liquidated by various means. A primary way was by allowing a title or debt claim, of

which over 67,000 were made. Another means by which property was returned to private hands

was by the issuance of divesting orders, whereby the Federal Government relinquished vested

proprietary interests. The vesting orders were published in theFederal Register. A complete

listing of all the vesting orders, giving the vesting order number, summary description of the

vested property, and the Federal Register citation is contained in the annual reports of the Office

of Alien Property and Office of Alien Property.

Supervisory orders provided for the direction, management, supervision, and control of

specified foreign-owned property by the APC without transfer of ownership to the APC. The APC

issued supervisory orders for four main purposes: to facilitate investigations; to supplement vesting

orders; to acquire control over the property of nationals of enemy-occupied countries; and, to

acquire control over the property of internees. In contrast to vesting orders and supervisory orders,

which referred to specified pieces of property, general orders required certain classes of persons, or

persons having interests in certain types of property, to perform or refrain from performing certain

acts.

General orders were issued not only as a means of controlling property, but also for a

variety of other purposes. Several of the general orders gave the APC control over transactions

relating to property of nationals of certain foreign countries in patents, trademarks, and copyrights.

 Seven of the general orders related to the discovery of the interests of different persons in property

subject to the control of the APC. Three general orders required payment to the APC of royalties

due to nationals of enemy and enemy-occupied countries under contracts based on rights in
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patents, copyrights, and trademarks. Four general orders dealt with claims against the Custodian. 

One general order set up exchange ratios between the currency of the United States and that of five

enemy countries to provide for the discharge of certain obligations, the amount of which was fixed

in foreign currency.

The vesting orders and the general orders were published in theFederal Register. The

supervisory orders were not.

General Orders

Case files consisting of copies of general orders, correspondence, and memoranda.

Arranged numerically by general order number.

Box 488 location: 230/39/4/02

Supervisory Orders

Case files consisting of originals and copies of supervisory orders, recommendations for

supervision, memoranda, and copies of recession and termination orders. Arranged numerically

by supervisory order number.

Boxes 484-486 location: 230/39/4/01

Legal Records

Between 1942 and 1965 the Alien Property Custodian, later the Office of Alien Property,

were involved in some 3,000 suits and other judicial proceedings. One of the litigative cases, the

Interhandel case, because of its importance, is separately described below.168 Many of the suits

involved title claims for return of vested property under sections 9(a) and 32 of the Trading with

the Enemy Act; section 207 of the International Claims Settlement Act, and claims for payment of

debts owed by the prevesting owners of vested property under section 34 of the Trading with the

Enemy Act and section 203 of the International Claims Settlement Act. Suits were also initiated

by the APC under section 17 of the Trading with the Enemy Act to enforce compliance with

vesting orders.

Cases involving vested property in estates or trusts were by far the most numerous among

those suits and judicial proceedings in which the APC had an involvement. The litigation

involving estates and trusts encompassed a variety of types of cases, including those pertaining to

provisions in wills that attempted to prevent vesting of enemy interests in estates by postponing

distribution thereof until after the war. Other litigation concerned the constitutionality of the laws

of certain States which provided, in effect, that foreigners residing outside of the United States

could not take property by succession unless a reciprocal right existed in favor of American

citizens under the laws of the countries of which such foreigners were citizens. Most of the

remaining estate and trust cases involved attacks on wills, proof of heirship, and revocation of

trusts.

Other suits and judicial proceedings in which the APC had an interest pertained to actions

relating to banks and insurance companies in liquidation; matters relating to corporate and

individual insolvencies; matters involving taxes and assessments; matters relative to patents,

trademarks, and copyrights; actions relating to real property; causes in admiralty; and matters

involving property seized in World War I.

 

168 In late 1982, when the litigation case files were appraised by the preparer of this finding aid, the

Department of Justice still physically and legally retained about 100 cubic feet of another large case, the Bonnar or

General Dyestuff case.
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Administrative “O” File 1941-1959169

This series consists of correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, lists of cases, summaries of

cases, status reports on cases, and other records relating to legal and litigative matters involving

alien property. The series is arranged chronologically.

Box 1 location: 230/38/49/06

Litigative Case Files170 1942-1965

This series consists of correspondence, memoranda, cables, affidavits, depositions,

judgment orders, pretrial conference material, motions, briefs, stipulations, complaints, trial

transcripts, investigative reports, copies of vesting orders, and other legal records. Arranged

numerically by case number.171

Boxes 1-89 location: 230/38/49/06

Records Relating to the Interhandel Case

In October 1948, Interhandel, a Swiss holding company known also as I.G. Chemie,

brought suit against the Attorney General of the United States under section 9 of the Trading with

the Enemy Act in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, for the return of 93

percent of the stock of the General Aniline & Film Corporation (GAF), a Delaware Corporation,

and about 1.8 million dollars in cash. The property had been vested under the Trading with the

Enemy Act, as amended by Vestings Orders containing formal findings that the property belonged

to I.G. Farbenindustrie, A.G. (I.G. Farben) of Germany, an enemy nation (e.g., Vesting Order No.

907, February 15, 1943, 8 Fed. Reg. 2453). The suit was filed not in Interhandel’s name, I.G.

Chemie, under which it did business in German-speaking Basel, but in its rarely used French

name, Societe Internationale pour Participations Industrielles Et Commercials S.A.

The Interhandel complaint charged that the GAF property had been wrongfully seized by

the Alien Property Custodian because Interhandel had never been either an enemy or an ally of an

enemy of the United States. Interhandel did not dispute the United States claim that I.G. Farben

controlled I.G. Chemie (Interhandel) before June 1940. It contended, however, that after that date

they had cut all ties with I.G. Farben. The United States charged that from the time of the

plaintiff’s incorporation in the 1920s to the surrender of Germany in 1945 that Interhandel had

participated in a conspiracy or common plan with the private Swiss banking house of Hans

Sturzenegger & Cie. (prior to 1940 known as Eduard Greutert & Cie.), I.G. Farben, and others to

cloak the ownership, control, and domination by I.G. Farben of properties in the United States and

in many other countries.

 

169 The rest of this series contains a 96-page mimeographed study entitled “Alien Property Litigation in

World War II, prepared by Robert M. Vote, dated September 1, 1949. This study contains a seven-page alphabetical

index listing approximately 300 cases mentioned in the study. The rest of the series is located in the Washington

National Records Center in Box 295 of Accession 131-64E0896. The records are still in the legal custody of the

Department of Justice.

170 Researchers may also wish to consult the U.S. District Court records for related records. Additionally

researchers may find useful the description of important cases in the published annual reports of the Alien Property

Custodian and the Office of Alien Property, as well as those of the Department of Justice. Copies of these annual

reports may be obtained from the National Archives Library at College Park, located within the Archives II building.

171 There are more litigative case files located in the Washington National Records Center in Suitland,

Maryland in Accession131-64E0896 Boxes 295(part) to 538. These records are still in the legal custody of the

Department of Justice.
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On July 5, 1949, the U.S. District Court ordered the production, discovery, and inspection

by both parties of the records of the other, including, in the case of production by the plaintiff, the

papers and books of the Sturzenegger firm, which the Government contended was the controlling

influence in and alter ego, of the petitioner.

In the fall of 1949, in compliance with the order, the Government produced and the

plaintiff copied approximately 20,000 documents ordered to be produced by the Office of Alien

Property. The plaintiff, however, because of Swiss secrecy laws, refused to produce the records of

Hans Sturzenegger & Cie. In November 1952, in a hearing extending over 5 days, the District

Court reviewed the failure to produce the records, and held in a comprehensive opinion dated

February 19, 1953, that the significance of the records was such that unless the plaintiff complied

fully with the order for production by June 15, 1953, the complaint would be dismissed with

prejudice. After additional extensions, the court, on December 21, 1953, entered an order

dismissing the complaint. The plaintiffs then took the case to the United States Court of Appeals,

which granted them an additional extension of time to produce the required documents. On

August 6, 1956, the District Court, finding that there had been no compliance with the order for

discovery in the time permitted by the Court of Appeals, entered an order upon the 1955 mandate

of the Court of Appeals affirming the 1953 order of dismissal and adjudging that the plaintiff’s

complaint stood dismissed with prejudice.

While these legal battles were being fought, the Attorney General ran GAF as a vested

property, one of over 400 corporations that the United States controlled as a result of vesting. 

Additionally, throughout the legal proceedings, the petitioner’s attorney, John J. Wilson, and

others attempted to work out an out-of-court settlement that would divide up the vested property

among the stockholders, Interhandel, and the United States Government.

In June 1953 the Interhandel suit was legally reinstated when the United States Supreme

Court decided in favor of Interhandel and reversed the lower courts. It held that Interhandel, even

without the submission of the Swiss documents, was entitled to a hearing on the merits of the case.

While continuing to pursue their claim in the United States District Court, the plaintiffs

continued their efforts to negotiate a settlement. Assisting them in their efforts was Prince

Radziwell, President Kennedy’s brother-in-law. Negotiating with Attorney General Robert

Kennedy, Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, and Assistant Attorney General William

H. Orrick, Radziwell and other spokesmen for the plaintiffs during 1962, were able to persuade the

Government to settle out-of-court. They were assisted by Congress, which passed a bill in October

1962 permitting the sale of GAF without court action, and the President, who signed the bill into

law on October 22, 1962. With the bill signed the sole remaining company in active operation

under the supervision of OAP was ready for disposal by the United States Government.

With most of the details worked out for an out-of-court settlement, Attorney General

Robert Kennedy, on March 4, 1963, held a press conference to announce the settlement of the

Interhandel case. Anticipating criticism, he stated “Our fundamental aim throughout has been for

the government to step out of is unnatural role as the owner of a private corporation and to end the

extensive litigation in this case.” He maintained that if the Government was to go ahead and sell

GAF without first settling the suit, as the law now allowed, it would be faced with from one to

three years litigation over its right to do so. Deputy Attorney General Katzenbach added that if

there had been sale without a prior settlement, Interhandel would have fought the constitutionally

of the 1962 sales amendment in the courts and if it lost in the United States courts, it would have

carried the case to the International Court of Justice at The Hague.

On March 6, 1963, at a press conference President Kennedy was questioned about the

Interhandel settlement and pending sale. He was asked:
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“Mr. President, for twenty years the Justice Department has assured Congress that it had

evidence showing that the Interhandel was a cover for the Girm firm of I.G. Farben, and therefore

the seizure of General Aniline & Film in this country during World War II was justified. Now, in

the past few days, there has been an agreement between Justice and Interhandel on the division of

the proceeds from the sale of Aniline. Has the Justice Department discovered its facts are

wrong...or is this the result of pressure from the Swiss government?”

President Kennedy replied:

“No, I would say that the agreement is an equitable agreement. It could have gone on ten

years more in the courts, and it has been now fifteen or twenty years and lawyers have enjoyed it,

but I don’t think that there is anything else. I don’t think we would get a better arrangement if we

continued the litigation for another ten years. We feel that the arrangement which has been worked

out will return the assets to those who have a claim to them, and I think the division of resources is

fair.172

Although the announcement of the settlement brought forth much criticism in the press

and in Congress, the Government and Interhandel proceeded to work out the details for approval

by the court. On December 20, 1963, a stipulation of settlement was signed by the Department of

Justice and Interhandel that provided for the sale of GAF to the public and the division of the

proceeds between the Government and Interhandel in the agreed proportions. The proposed

compromise of the litigation was presented to the United States District Court, and on April 1964,

the court approved the settlement and authorized the sale.

On March 9, 1965, the GAF stock was sold be sealed bid at the largest competitive

auction in Wall Street history. A syndicate, headed by Blyth & Company, with a bid of nearly 330

million dollars was the winner. Payment to Interhandel netted about 122 million dollars-an

impressive amount, especially in view of the fact that in 1950 Interhandel was willing to settle for

14 million dollars.173

Office Files Relating to the [Interhandel] I.G. Farben Case

This series contains the files of the office of Alien Property relating to the case brought by

the I.G. Chemie Co. for the return of property seized by the U.S. Government after World War II

from the I.G. Farben Co. The files include correspondence files, I.G. Chemie documents,

pleadings, motions, briefs and court decisions in the litigation in the District Court, Court of

Appeals, and the Supreme Court. Issues relating to the case include the testimony of witnesses,

Swiss inspection, litigation, recapitalization, sale, good faith, and other issues. Arranged in

numerical order by folder number. The folders are arranged by type of document or by general

subject and thereunder chronologically. 

Boxes 1-159 location: 230/44/45/04

Box # File Title

12-13 Kilgore Committee

33-37 Press Clippings

37 Swiss Secrecy v. Steiger & Meyers memos

49 Swiss Inspection - July-August 1950

 

172 Public Papers of the President of the United States: John F Kennedy; Containing the Public Messages,

Speeches and Statements of the President January 1 to November 22, 1963 (Washington, DC, United States

Government Printing Office, 1964) pp. 240-241.

173This administrative history of the Interhandel case was based on information contained in the records and

the brief for the respondents in the Supreme Court of the United States (October Term, 1957, case number 348).
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51 Basel File, Correspondence with Washington

132 Swiss Law Material No. 1-55 - #953

133 Swiss Law Material No. 56-110 - #953

Hermine Meyer Memo; October 1, 1946, Swiss “Secrecy Laws” #957

135-136 Swiss Note - #977; Swiss Note - #977(1)

137 Background Chronology and Documents (Re: Swiss Note of August 9,

1956)

Swiss Accord Files - Outlines of Contents - #978

139 Swiss Note, January 11, 1957 - #979(a)

FBI Work Papers Relating to the I.G. Farben Case 1962-1963

This series contains records of the FBI investigation of I.G. Farben financial transactions

and the relations between I.G. Farben and its subsidiary companies. Folder one contains a list of

subjects that were being investigated. Arranged by subject and thereunder by the name of the

Special Agent Accountants working on the case.

Boxes 1-2 location: 230/44/42/03

Records Relating to the Deposition of Hans Sturzenegger 1929-1950

This series consists of depositions taken of Dr. Hans Sturzenegger (1949-1950), a Swiss

banker, and documentss introduced by him in the case of I.G. Chemie Co. of Switzerland against

the United States. The I.G. Chemie Co. was attempting to secure the return of the General Aniline

& Film Co. that was seized at the end of World War II because of its relation to the Germany

company, I.G. Farben. I.G. Chemie sought to regain the GAF property or for payment of the value

of the property. Arranged in two sections, the first containing transcripts of Han Sturzenegger’s

deposition arranged chronologically, and the second containing copies of the documents

introduced by Sturzenegger as exhibits which are arranged by exhibit number. Box 7 contains a

log book of Sturzenegger exhibits.

Boxes 1-22 location: 230/44/41/03

Records Relating to the Discovery by Plaintiffs of Department of Justice Documents,

1940-1962

These records relate to the legal efforts by I.G. Chemie, for the return of the General

Aniline & Film Co. property or for payment of the value of the property. Arranged in five sections:

lists of documents made available to the plaintiffs, descriptions of the documents arranged by

document number, correspondence about the documents arranged chronologically, cross reference

tables, and miscellaneous files. 

Boxes 1-8 location: 230/44/41/03

Box # Contents

1 Inspection of GAF Documents by Larry Klinger May 1-2, 1962

Government Documents Not Exhibited for Inspection (through

#24126)

2 Discovery Documents (Original list of documents shown)

Description of Documents #1507-2846

3 Description of Documents #4581-6450

3-4 Description of Documents #17000-24126

4 Correspondence Documents II, 1951

5 Correspondence Documents II (thru December 1950)

I.G. Chemie v. Kennedy (List of names)
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6 Report on Investigation of I.G. Farbenindustrie

Cross Reference Tables - Obsolete

7 Currie Documents

Numbers Assigned Overseas Branch

8 Nurnberg Documents

Work Progress Reports for File Room

U.S. Court of Appeals Records in the I.G. Chemie Case 1948-1953

This series contains the proceedings, motions, briefs, and exhibits relating to the appeal by

I.G. Chemie in its case against the U.S. Government. Arranged by document type in published

volumes.

Boxes 1-2 location: 230/44/41/03

Records Relating to Settlement Negotiations with the I.G. Chemie Co. 1961-1963

This series contains files that were maintained by Assistant Attorney General William

Orrick. who was responsible for alien property matters, regarding settlement negotiations with the

I.G. Chemie Co. in its case against the U.S. Government. Arranged by subject according to an

alphabetical filing code and thereunder arranged chronologically. 

Boxes 1-4 location: 230/44/41/06

I.G. Farben Files Relating to Swiss Banks 1928-1945

This series contains photostatic copies of I.G. Farben correspondence taken from company

files in Germany. The files also contain English translations. The documents concern I.G. Farben

Company’s dealings with Swiss banks. Arranged by document number. All documents are under

the main classification number 20 with sub-numbers ranging in broken sequence from 2-53 to 20-

1162, with some sub-numbers being further divided.

Boxes 1-9 location: 230/44/41/07

Captured I.G. Farben Documents 1905-1956

This series consists of the main body of documents obtained from I.G. Farben and other

sources in Germany and the United States for use in the Interhandel case. The documents, with

translations, are numbered from 1 to 28,697. Each file includes a brief summary, description and

cross-references. The documents extensively detail I.G. Farben business dealings before and

during World War II. A master card index was maintain by the Office of Alien Property

describing these documents.174 Arranged by document number, generally in chronological order

with some segments arranged by company and thereunder chronologically.

Boxes 1-394 location: 230/44/48/06

Miscellaneous I.G. Farben Documents 1902-1946

Documents obtained from the I.G. Farben company and from other sources for use in the

Interhandel case. The documents in this series were considered less important than those in the

 

174 This index was last seen by the preparer of this finding aid in the basement of the Todd Building in

Washington DC in the fall of 1983. The Todd Building was being used by the Department of Justice for several of

its units at that time. The index consisted of 28,697 4-by-6-inch index cards giving document number and summary

of the contents of the documents. It appears this index is stored at the Washington National Records Center in

Suitland, Maryland under accession number 131-94-0001 and is scheduled to be accessioned into the National

Archives in the near future.
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series described above The records relate to the business dealings of the I.G. Farben Co. and the

I.G. Chemie Co. as they relate to the attempt by I.G. Chemie to regain property seized after World

War II. A master card index was maintained by the Office of Alien Property describing these

documents. Arranged by document number. The documents are generally arranged in

chronological order.

Boxes 1-49 location: 230/45/6/06

Classified I.G. Farben Documents 1941-1952

This series contains the previously classified portion of the miscellaneous documents

obtained from I.G. Farben and other sources in Germany and the United States, relating to the trial

of the Interhandel case. A complete list of the documents was maintained on a master index card

file for the trial. This card file is not present. A partial list is given in document 21537 “Bernstein

Report-List of Exhibits.” Arranged by document number with numbers. The documents are

primarily numbered in chronological order.

Boxes 1-16 location: 230/44/42/01

Box # File Numbers

1 Document number list - 16792

2 16797-17103

3 17131-18488

4 18492-18724

5 18739-19157

6 19160-20348

7 20363-20744

8 20775-21268

9 21288-21537 (Bernstein Report-List of Exhibits)

10 21538-21667

11 21670-21932

12 21933-22204

13 22214-23000

14 23058-23562

15 23585-23964

16 23967-27349

I.G. Farben Chronological File 1920-1951

This series contains a chronological set of I.G. Farben Co. and related documents. This

series was compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the convenience of the attorneys in

the case. The documents contain the number that corresponds to the numbered series of

I.G.Farben documents. Arranged chronologically.

Boxes 1-26 location: 230/44/42/04

I.G. Chemie Documents 1928-1945

These documents are business records and correspondence taken from the files of the I.G.

Chemie Company. Included are photocopies of the original documents and English translations.

The files were selected by attorneys of the Department of Justice in reference to the seizure of I.G.

Farben assets after World War II. The attorneys went to Switzerland in 1950 and reviewed the

original documents. Arranged in three groups; an alphabetical list of documents, a group

of documents arranged numerically; and a group of documents arranged by the company name of

companies that dealt with I.G. Chemie. 
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Boxes 1-2 location: 230/44/41/02

Records of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States (RG 299)

The Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States, from 1948 to 1954, the War Claims

Commission, was created under the Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1954, effective July 1, 1954, and was

transferred to the Department of Justice. The Commission is a quasi-judicial, independent agency within

the Department of Justice which adjudicates claims of U.S. nationals against foreign governments, either

under specific jurisdiction conferred by Congress or pursuant to international claims settlement

agreements. Funds for payment of the Commission’s awards are derived from congressional

appropriations, international claims settlements, or the liquidation of foreign assets in the United States by

the Departments of Justice and the Treasury.

The Commission’s organization and functions are defined in the International Claims Settlement Act of

1949, as amended (22 U.S.C. 1621 et se.), the War Claims Act of 1948, as amended (50 U.S.C. app. 2001

et seq.), and the Iran Claims Settlement Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 note).

War Claims Commission Minutes 1949-1954 (Entry 3)

Boxes 1-5 location: 230/43/34/05

Summary Sheets, Cost Estimates, and Other Records Relating to War Damage Claims

(Romanian Claims Program) 1956 (Entry 11)

This series consists chiefly of records created or accumulated in April 1948 by the general

manager of Romano Americana, S.A., of Bucharest, Romania, and subsequently transferred from

the State Department to the Romanian Claims Division of the Commission. The records document

the role of the Commission and its predecessors in assisting U.S. nationals in their efforts to

recover compensation for property or financial losses sustained in Romania during World War II. 

The records includes records from the U.S. Embassy (Bucharest) legation records (dating from

1940) which support claims of American Jews against the fascist Romanian government to recover

expropriated property and other assets. Arranged by type of record, thereunder by volume in

alphabetical order, thereunder by subject heading, and thereunder by section number.

Boxes 1-3 location: 230/43/35/01

Records Relating to American Claims Against Romania 1945-1951 (Entry 11A)

This series contains State Department records relating to American claims against the

Romanian government. 

Box 1 location: 230/43/35/02

Pilot and Precedent Decisions for the Polish and Title III Claims Programs 1956-1967

(Entry 12)

This series consists of proposed and final decisions rendered by the Commission on claims

of American citizens and nations to restitution or compensation of property or financial losses

sustained in consequence of operation of laws or official acts of infringement of rights or

expropriation of property in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, the Soviet Union, and Poland in the

World War II era. The records are arranged by type of decision, thereunder sequentially by

volume number, thereunder by name of claims program, and thereunder chronologically. Each

decision has an assigned claim number and decision number, and decision numbers run

consecutively, though there are gaps.

Boxes 1-2 location: 230/43/34/03
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Lists of Bulgarian Laws on Nationalization and Confiscation and Related Records 1955-1956

(Entry 13)

This series consist mainly of compilations of annotated lists of Bulgarian laws and

proclamations (1945-1955) on nationalization of foreign, including American property. Among

the other records are copies of State Department legation records dating from 1942. Arranged

chronologically (laws) or by subject (other records)

Box 1 location: 230/43/35/02

Decisions, Opinions, and Related Records 1950-1957 (Entry 16)

This series consists mainly of opinions rendered by the General Counsel on World War IIrelated property claims of American citizens against foreign governments. Other records include

panel opinions and decisions based on Public Law 285, and related legislative histories and yearly

reports. Arranged by type of decision (pilot, panel) of chairmen of commissioners, or by opinion of

the General Counsel, and thereafter numerically. Other records are arranged by subject.

Boxes 1-5 location: 230/43/22/07

Transcripts of Hearings 1952-1959 (Entry 17)

This series consists mainly of transcripts of hearings of the War Claims Commission and

the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission regarding the disposition of claims of American

citizens and corporations arising from the confiscation or expropriation of property by the

governments of Germany, Japan, the Soviet Union, and various European nations before and

during World War II. Arranged chronologically by date of hearing.

Boxes 1-5 location: 230/43/24/05

Correspondence, Memorandums, and Reports Concerning the Resolution of POW,

Civilian Internee, and Corporate Claims 1950-1956 (Entry 18)

The records in this series chiefly related to the interpretation and enforcement of the

restitution provisions of the legislation which established the Yugoslavian, Chinese, and

Czechoslovakian property claims programs. Other records include lists of confiscated property

claims by religious claimants and lists of Hungarian claims of aggrieved American nationals, and

statements relating to various American claims against the Italian Government. Arranged by name

of claims program, thereunder by subject, and thereunder chronologically.

Boxes 1-6 location: 230/43/24/05

Yugoslavian Program Claim Files, 1950-1981 (Entry 20)

These records pertain to claims submitted by American citizens whose real property or

other tangible assets had been expropriated or sequestered by authority of the Yugoslavian

government during World War II. The records are arranged sequentially by claim docket number

(Y-251 thru Y-1807) and thereunder chronologically. Boxes 1-103 location: 230/43/35/02;

Box 13 location: 230/D/14/02; Boxes 104-126 location: 230/43/37/04; and,

Boxes 127-230 location: 230/43/38/01

State Department Correspondence and Other Records for the Polish and German Claims Program

1954-1962 (Entry 21)

This series consists chiefly of correspondence and other communications between officials

in the U.S. State Department and in the U.S. Embassy at Danzig, Germany, concerning the

processing and disposition of claims of American citizens or companies whose property had been
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seized in Nazi-controlled Poland and Germany. Other records include documentation of

individual claims and copies of final decisions on claims based on the War Claims Act of 1948

and the International Claims Settlement Act of 1949. The records are arranged by type of claims

program, thereunder by subject, and thereunder chronologically.

Boxes 1-3 location: 230/43/34/04

State Department Correspondence Relating to the Polish Program 1922-1960 (Entry 21A)

This series contains State Department correspondence relating to American commercial

and personal losses in Poland before, during, and after World War II. The records are arranged

alphabetically by name of correspondent.

Boxes 1-6 location: 230/43/34/03

Miscellaneous State Department Records Relating to the Polish Program 1921-1959

(Entry 21B)

This series contains miscellaneous State Department records relating to American claims

against the Polish government. The records are arranged by subject.

Box 1 location: 230/43/34/04

Correspondence, Reports, and Other Records for the Soviet (Title III), German, and

 Other Claims Programs 1954-1964 (Entry 22)

This series consists mainly of background legal documentation relating to the claims of

American holders of repudiated Imperial Russian ruble bonds and German Weimar Republic

dollar bonds. Other records include State Department correspondence with U.S. Embassy officials

in Moscow and Berlin, and indexes, lists, and reports concerning claims of American citizens or

companies whose property had been seized in Soviet Russia before World War II or had been

expropriated or destroyed in fascist Japan,. in Nazi Germany, fascist Italy, and in occupied Balkan

countries during World War II. The records are arranged by name of claims program, thereunder

by subject, and thereunder chronologically.

Boxes 1-3 location: 230/43/34/02

OMGUS Property Control Correspondence Maintained by the Foreign Claims Settlement 

Commission of the United States 1945-1949 (Entry 23)

This series consists chiefly of correspondence between executive officers or counsel of

American corporations that held interests in Germany of heads of American-owned German

corporations and officials of the Property Control and External Assets Branch of the Property

Division of the Office of Military Government for Germany (OMGUS). The Property Control

Division reviewed, investigated, and documented the claims of companies for compensation for

loss of property sustained at the hands of the Nazi Government in Germany in the 1930s and

1940s. Other records include background legal documentation supporting these corporate claims

and other claims of American citizens for restitution. 

The records are arranged consecutively by claim number and thereunder by name of

individual or corporation.

Boxes 1-4 location: 230/43/34/05

POW and Civilian Internee Compensation Claim Files 1950-1967 (Entry 24)

These records pertain to claims to compensate former American and Filipino POWs,

American merchant seamen, and civilian American citizens determined to be legally eligible to
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receive benefits because they had suffered imprisonment, internment, detainment, or expropriation

of property at the hands of hostile forces during World War II and the Korean Conflict. The

records are arranged by type of war claims program (World War II POWS and civilian internees,

and Korean War POWs), thereunder in claim number order, and thereunder chronologically.

Boxes 1-3 location: 230/43/24/01

Records relating to Pre-War American Business Investments 1945-1947 (Entry 27)

The records in this series were gathered by one of the predecessors of the Commission

from various sources and concern the pre-war investment of American companies in Germany,

Austria, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Poland, and Danzig. Included is an index to Yugoslavian

claims, an index to the holdings of American firms in Czechoslovakia, an index of American

claims to property in the U.S. and Russian zones, and a list of secret and confidential

correspondence concerning American property claims. The records are arranged by subject. 

Box 1 location: 230/43/23/07

Records relating to Claims Filed Under Public Law 285 1948-1963 (Entry 28)

This series concerns Public Law 285 signed into law on August 9, 1955. The law was

established to consider war damage claims of U.S. nationals against the governments of Bulgaria,

Hungary, Rumania, Italy, and the Soviet Union and against certain nationals of the Soviet Union. 

The records relate to such specific matters as war losses, debt claims, Balkan claims, and Soviet

and Italian claims, German assets, and court opinions and decisions. The records are arranged by

subject.

Boxes 1-6 location: 230/43/23/07

Records of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (RG 65)

During World War II the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had general charge of the investigations of

all violations of Federal laws, with the exception of those matters that were specifically assigned by

legislative enactment or otherwise to some other Federal investigative body. During the war the FBI

directed the greater part of its attention toward internal security problems. The agency also extended its

activities during the war to many Latin America countries by sending liaison agents to work with the police

and intelligence forces of those countries.175

Special Intelligence Service [Latin American World War II] Records

Case File FBI HQ File 64-4104

Box 16 location: 230/32/37/03

 

175 Researchers interested in FBI activities in Latin America will find cited throughout this finding aid

references to records relating to the Special Intelligence Service activities in Latin America. Additionally, the FBI

should still have in its possession a significant body of Special Intelligence Service records. In 1981, officials of the

National Archives and Records Service (now NARA reviewed the FBI’s records and identified in a report to the U.S.

District Court for the District of Columbia that the FBI had some 50,000 case files in headquarters (i.e., Washington,

DC) in file Classification 64 (“Foreign Miscellaneous”). The SIS program is well-documented in the Classification

64 holdings. 
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Department of Commerce Records

Records of the Department of Commerce (RG 40)

The Department of Commerce’s primary missions before the war were to foster, promote, and develop the

foreign and domestic commerce, the mining, manufacturing, shipping, and fishing industries, and the

transportation facilities of the United States. During World War II its activities were directed mainly

towards assisting the prosecution of the war. 

Department Histories of World War II, 1945-1953 (Entry 4)

Boxes 1-2. Box 1 contains “The War Role of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic

Commerce” prepared in 1946. location: 570/2/52/02

Records of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce (RG 151)

After America’s entry into World War II the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce provided

commercial information to various Government agencies; made special studies and reports for them; acted

as a major fact-finding organization in the field of foreign commerce for the Foreign Economic

Administration; and it aided business in converting to the production of war materials or in sustaining the

civilian economy under wartime conditions.

Records of the Office of International Trade

Central Files

Central Files 1945-1949 (Entry UD 13)

County Files 1945-1949

Boxes 612-613 Switzerland location: 570/55/14/06

Records of the European Division

Records Relating to Treaties, Tariffs, and Negotiations, Switzerland, 1905-1952

(Entry UD 23)

Boxes 1-9 location: 570/55/24/05

Correspondence and Reports on German Cartels, Monopolies, and Industrial Firms 1945-1949

(Entry UD 26)

This series, which is arranged by the name of the firm, contains reports originated by

American and British Foreign Office and other intelligence organizations and sent by the

Commercial Attache London to the Bureau. The reports contain a summary of the historic

development of the firm, its principal works and activities, and its economic importance.

Boxes 1-17 location: 570/55/25/03

Other Agency Records

Records of the Office of War Information (RG 208)

The Office of War Information (OWI) was established by an Executive order of June 13, 1942, “in

recognition of the right of the American people and of all other peoples opposing the Axis oppressors to be

truthfully informed about the common war effort.” To achieve a coordinated governmental war

information program, both foreign and domestic, the functions and records of the Office of Facts and
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Figures and of the Office of Government Reports and the coordinating functions of the Division of

Information in the Office for Emergency Management were transferred to the OWI. The Foreign

Intelligence Service, Outpost, Publication, and Pictorial Branches of the Office of the Coordinator of

Information were also transferred to the OWI. The Executive order provided, however, that dissemination

of information to the Latin American countries should be continued by the Office of the Coordinator of

Inter-American Affairs. The OWI was terminated, effective September 15, 1945, by an Executive order of

August 31, 1945.

Records of the Overseas Operations Branch

The Overseas Operations Branch, established June 1942, succeeded to the functions of the

Foreign Information Service of the Office of the Coordination of Information. It planned and

carried out the wartime propaganda activities of the Federal Government in all countries except

those of Latin America. The Branch established Outposts in more than 20 neutral and Allied

Nations, and in areas where it had no representatives it provided State Department missions with

informational materials for distribution.

Records of the Office of Policy Coordination

The Office of Policy Coordination, established September 16, 1944, succeeded to the

functions of the former Chief of Liaison. It was responsible for all liaison with Government

agencies and other governments on matters of propaganda policy and intelligence. On behalf of

the Deputy Directors, it drafted the weekly Overseas Central Directive and performed related

functions such as the coordination, clearance, interpretation, and issuance of directives for the

deputies, the Review Board, and the San Francisco and New York Offices.

Area Policy File 1943-January 1946 (Entry 358)

Interoffice correspondence, cables, memoranda, and reports pertaining to the OWI’s

information policy for various foreign countries.

Box 111 (Portugal) location: 350/73/24/03

Box 112 (Spain, Sweden, Switzerland) location: 350/73/24/03

Policy Subject File 1942-January 1946 (Entry 359)

Cables and memoranda exchanged by the Policy Coordinator with the New York and San

Francisco Control Offices, Outposts, and other units regarding policy guidance. Also included are

directives concerning the release or treatment of such news subjects as neutrals. In addition the

series includes reports from Outposts on their operations, and intelligence materials.

Box 115 (Neutrals, 1944) location: 350/73/24/03

Box 827 (Switzerland, 1944-1945) location: 350/73/24/05

Records of the Bureau of Overseas Intelligence

The Bureau of Overseas Intelligence was established in August 1943 to replace the

Bureau of Research and Analysis. The Bureau was responsible for the collection of intelligence

materials, liaison with other Government agencies having intelligence materials, and the furnishing

of offices of the OWI with intelligence materials from its central intelligence files. It maintain

current summaries of conditions in various regions of the world, furnished background material for

use in operations, and maintained a running audit on the reliability of its intelligence sources.

Records of the Central Intelligence Division

The Central Intelligence Division, among its other functions, was to maintain a central
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repository of intelligence material and a central repository for all foreign operational information in

Washington.

Central Intelligence Records 1942-1945 (Entry 365)

Intelligence materials consisting of OWI and non-OWI publications and documents.

Box # File Title or Subject

152-153 Dealings with the Ministry of Economic Warfare location:

350/73/25/04

205 Switzerland 1942-1943 location: 350/73/26/05

216 Switzerland 1943-1945 location: 350/73/26/07

Records of the Regional Analysis Division

The Regional Analysis Division was established in August 1943. It classified intelligence

materials according to the geographic area concerned and analyzed intelligence from the foreign

media; prepared intelligence reports for policy and background; and made its intelligence reports

and materials available to other parts of the OWI.

Informational File on Europe 1941-1946 (Entry 367)

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, and processed material concerning intelligence data

on various European countries. These records were collected from private sources, apparently as

background material.

Box 254 (Switzerland) location: 350/73/27/04

Box 348 Mostly European Intelligence Papers prepared by the B.B.C. regarding European

neutrals (1941-1943); the Netherlands, Belgium, and Switzerland (1942-1943); and, the

Scandinavian countries (1943-1944). location: 350/73/27/05

Records of the Office of Censorship (RG 216)

The First War Powers Act, approved on December 18, 1941 (55 Stat. 840), contained broad grants of

Executive authority for the prosecution of the war, including a provision for censorship. The next day the

President signed Executive Order 8985, which established the Office of Censorship and conferred on its

Director the power to censor international communications in “his absolute discretion.” Byron Price was

appointed Director of Censorship and remained in that office throughout the agency’s existence.

When the office of Censorship was organized under a civilian director, the censorship activities carried on

by the War Department were placed in the Postal Division under the direction of a Chief Postal Censor.

By Executive Order 9631 the Office of Censorship was formally abolished as of November 15, 1945.

During 1944 and 1945 the Office of Censorship was an active particpant in Safehaven program acivities. 

Throughout the summer and fall of 1944 the Foreign Economic Administration (FEA) explained its

specific Safehaven Program needs in terms of intercept material. For example, on September 13, 1944, the

FEA Administratior wrote the Director of The Office of Censorhsip 

that the latter’s office needed to broaden its activities, in part because of the “growing use...being made of

censorship intercepts on Axis business arrangements in neutral countries, especially in view of Germany’s

plan to make use of neutrals for concealing assets.” Indeed, the FEA’s Economic Intelligence Division

received from and processed intercepts relating to German economic penetration as it was accomplished

through flight of German capital (actually in motion); use of German assets outside of German-controlled
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Europe, in neutral countries, and in countries like Turkey and Argentina; and, German personnel operating

in neutral countries in technical, managerial and engineering capacities.176

By mid December 1944, the Office of Censorship, guided by an outlined provided by the Blockade

Division of the FEA had provided its staff with directives for intercepting Safehaven information. Censors

and examiners were further instructed on Safehaven intelligence requirements when a directive was issued

to them on January 1, 1945. To be watched for were evidences of: 1) export and import activities

disguised to conceal illegal or deceptive business arrangements; 2) stockpiling in neutral countries by the

enemy; 3) investments of new capital in any form by cloaks; 4) manipulations in Switzerland of free

currency, and transfers through Swiss banks to Argentine banks through sales of Swiss francs; 5) gold

exchanges for free currency; 6) rendition of services, such as acting as depository for assets; 7) travels by

Nazis who fled or had been evacuated from formerly German occupied territories; 8) activities of people

leaving from Germany and German-occupied Europe, or Germans in neutral counties to Western

Hemisphere; 9) Nazi political agents in neutral countries in Allied-occupied countries; in Prisoner of War

Camps; 10) Nazi propaganda agents anywhere; 11) transfers of stockpiles of merchandise from one

country to another; 12) transfers to neutral countries of treasure,--gold, currency, books, manuscripts, art

objects, etc., looted by the Germans; 13) German holdings in neutral countries: gold, bank deposits,

securities, cartel and contractual agreements, claims, mortgages, accounts receivable, patent rights and

trademarks, options, etc.; and, 14) technical, skilled and managerial personnel operating in neutral

countries but of German origin and Nazi persuasion.177

General Records

Administrative Subject File 1941-1945 (Entry 1A)

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, and related materials documenting the planning,

organization, administration, and operations of the Office of Censorship and its component units. 

The records, originating in all the operating units of the Office and in the advisory boards, relate to

the development of policies and programs for the examination of international communications

and the supervision of a voluntary censorship of the domestic press and radio; the allocation and

distribution to interested Government agencies of useful information intercepted in the process of 

censorship; the handling of special types of communications, such as privileged mail, financial

mail, and prisoner-of-war mail; and numerous other censorship activities. Included in the file are

reports of evasions and attempted evasions of censorship. Arranged according to a subjectnumeric classification scheme; part of which is indicated below..

Boxes 1-957 location: 650/27/3/01

Box # File Title

003-A Subject Matter

17 Smuggled Masterpieces; location: 650/27/3/03

003-A/3 Finance & Trade

20 Argentine-Spanish Clearing Arrangement Activ. Cartels location:

650/27/3/03

22 Insurance location: 650/27/3/04

23 Safe-Haven Projects

Sofina System

Swiss Watches location: 650/27/3/04

24 Misc. Finance & Trade location: 650/27/3/04

 

176 Clarke, “Safehaven Study,” pp. 96-99

177 Clarke, “Safehaven Study,” pp. 99-100.
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24-26 Blockade Information location: 650/27/3/04

003-A/8 Political

32 Argentina & Bolivia

Italy

Spain

Turkey 

location: 650/27/3/05

003-C User Agencies

51 Photostatic Copies-German Correspondence (OSS-OWI)

Alien Property Custodian location: 650/27/4/01

51-52 Board of Economic Warfare (Office of Economic Warfare) location:

650/27/4/01

52 Coordinator of Information

Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs location: 650/27/4/01

53 Federal Reserve System

Foreign Economic Administration location: 650/27/4/01

53-54 Justice Department location: 650/27/4/01

55 Navy Department 

location: 650/27/4/01

55-56 Office of Strategic Services location: 650/27/4/01

57 Securities & Exchange Commission location: 650/27/4/02

57-58 State Department location: 650/27/4/02

58 Treasury Department location: 650/27/4/02

59-60 War Department location: 650/27/4/02

61 White House location: 650/27/4/02

003-D Information from other Agencies

63 Alien Property Custodian

Board of Economic Warfare (OEW)

Justice Department

Navy Department

Office of Strategic Services location: 650/27/4/02

64 Office of War Information

State Department location: 650/27/4/03

64-65 War Department location: 650/27/4/03

007 Publications

81 Proclaimed List Check; location: 650/27/4/05

010 Relationships-Cooperation/ 010-C/1

105 Justice

Navy location: 650/27/5/01

106 State

Treasury

War

Alien Property Custodian

Board of Economic Warfare location: 650/27/5/02

107 Coordinator of Information

Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs

Office of Strategic Services

Office of War Information location: 650/27/5/02

108 Securities and Exchange Commission location: 650/27/5/02

010-E Cooperation-Other Countries
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113 Portugal

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Turkey location: 650/27/5/03

120 Argentina location: 650/27/5/04

012 Censorship Operations

152 Germany location: 650/27/6/01

154 Switzerland location: 650/27/6/01

012-A/5 Evasion of Censorship

227 Argentina

Spanish

Swedish

Swiss location: 650/27/7/05

012-A/6 Privileged Mail

241-242 Swiss Diplomatic Pouch Mail location: 650/27/7/07

244-245 Reports on Opening of Privileged Mail location: 650/27/8/01

250 Enemy Diplomatic location: 650/27/8/01

251 Complaints re Censorship of Diplomatic Mail (Argentina, Spain,

Switzerland) location: 650/27/8/01

012-A/8 Correspondence with Enemy Countries

258 Swiss Family Mail location: 650/27/8/02

012-A/10 Examination of Mail

260 Argentina location: 650/27/8/03

261 German location: 650/27/8/03

262 Italian location: 650/27/8/03

265 Sweden

Turkey location: 650/27/8/03

012-A/11 Financial

266 Financial Transactions- U.S.-European Neutrals location: 650/27/8/03

012-F Enemy Suspects

575 British Lists

Diplomats & Officials

MEW “G” List

MID [Military Intelligence Division] Summary of Information location:

650/27/14/06

576-577 Proclaimed List (Printed Copies) location: 650/27/14/06

577-579 Special Watch Instructions location: 650/27/14/06

579-583 Watch Lists location: 650/27/14/06

012-H Censorship in Foreign Countries

620 Portuguese location: 650/27/15/05

621 Spanish

Sweden

Switzerland location: 650/27/15/05

622 Argentina location: 650/27/15/05

016-D/1 Postal Training

754-755 Blockade Training location: 650/27/18/03

755 Business Training

Cartel Training location: 650/27/18/04

755-756 Finance Training location: 650/27/18/04
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022 Reports

834 Swiss Office of Commercial Expansion Bulletin location: 650/27/20/01

Index to the Administrative Subject File 1941-1945 (Entry 3)

Copies of outgoing correspondence and memoranda that form a cross-reference file to

Entry 1. A few originals of inconsequential incoming correspondence are in the file. The copies

are arranged alphabetically in three parts, as follows:

(1) “Public,” by name of person, firm, or organization to whom the Communication was

addressed; (2) “Censorship,” by name of author of the document (this part contains only copies of

communications between individuals within the censorship organization); and (3) “Other

Agencies,” by name of the Government agency to which the letter was addressed. At the bottom

of each document is the file number in the Administrative Subject File under which another copy,

together with the incoming communication and any other pertinent document, is filed.” 

Boxes 958-1199 location: 650/27/22/05

Records of the Office of the Director

Many of the records created by the Office are in the Administrative Subject File (Entry 1).

A History of the Office of Censorship 1941-1945 (Entry 4) 

Typewritten copies of the official history, reviewing the policies, procedures, and

experiences of the Office of Censorship, from the points of view of the Director’s Office, the

component divisions, and the individual field stations. Each volume is documented with such

pertinent exhibits as copies of correspondence, memoranda, directives, manuals, codes, minutes of

meetings, charts, and citations of legal authority. 

Boxes 1-7 location: 650/27/27/04

Historical File (Postal Censorship) 1934-1945 (Entry 5)

Material assembled by the Director’s Office as an aid in writing the part of the official

history relating to postal censorship. Included are reports, drafts, and charts pertaining to the

historical development of sections and subunits of the headquarters office of the Postal Division,

1943-1945; and histories, reports, training materials, general orders, a journal of daily events, and

some correspondence reflecting the planning for postal censorship before World War II by the

Censorship Branch of the Military Intelligence Division, War Department General Staff, and the

organization and operation of postal censorship under Army officers, 1934-1942. Materials

relating to headquarters history are arranged by section; the rest of the records are unarranged.

Boxes 1207-1213B location: 650/27/27/05

Records of the Administrative Division

Submission Slips (Intercepts December 1941-August 1945 (Entry 36)

Negative 16mm microfilm copies of submission slips containing the texts or portions of

texts of intercepted communications presented by censors as submissible information of interest or

value to user agencies and branches of Censorship. Arranged in four parts: 1)1942; 2) JanuaryAugust 1943; 3) 1943, and 4) Final Submission; thereunder arranged alphabetically by name of

sender, addressee, and any intermediaries.

Boxes 1-425 location: 650/43/23/06

Records of the Liaison and Digest Section
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U.S. Censorship Flash Index 1942-1945 (Entry UD 1)

Photostatic copy of an index, current as of August 15, 1945, to the Watch List and

Censorship Daily Reports, consisting of names watched by censors in the handling of international

communications. Names placed on the Index at the specific request of a Government agency or

branch of Censorship, or because they appeared on a recognized Government blacklist, were called

Watch List names and formed what was officially known as the U.S. Censorship Watch List.

Certain numbers, called Watch List Numbers, were used to indicate these names:

1000- the name was on the Proclaimed List of Certain Blocked Nationals

4600-the name was watch-listed at the request of a Government agency or branch of

Censorship.

4601-essentially the same as 4600, used to signify different types of handling by Cable

Censorship.

5000-the name was on Treasury Department’s List of Special Blocked Nationals.

7500-the name was of interest to a Government agency or to Chief Cable Censor with

respect to telecommunications only.

7600-the name was on the British Statutory List.

7700-the name was of high security interest to security agencies and the Technical

Operations Division.

If a name was not accompanied by one of the above numbers, it was called a Non-Watch

List name, and was listed on the Index only because there was information regarding the name in

the Censorship Daily Reports. Non-Watch List names were followed by other numbers which

represented Daily Reports. The Index consists of 50,600 strips, or 38,100 names, allowing for

cross-listings, of which 23,600 strips, involving 16,117 names, represented the Watch List. In

addition to the names and addresses and identifying numbers of subjects watched, the index strips

also carry certain distinctive letters, numbers and symbols which guided the censors in handling

pertinent documents. Arranged alphabetically by name of person, business firm, and

organization.

Box 1 location: 650/43/22/01

Indexes to Daily Reports Below 3,000. 1942-1945 (Entry UD 2)

Photostatic copies of names indexes involving Censorship Daily Report numbers below

3,000 which were deleted from the Flash Index. These include all listings involving Non-Watch

List numbers below 3,000 eliminated as obsolete in January, 1944, and 4900 listings, in

combination with Report numbers below 3,000, which were deleted in October 1944, and in May,

1945. Prior to the latter date, 4900 was a Watch List number, embracing names appearing on the

U.S. List of Unsatisfactory Consignees. In October 1944, all 4900 listings involving names in the

Western Hemisphere except Argentina were deleted and in May 1945, the remaining Argentine

and Eastern Hemisphere names were eradicated, discontinuing 4900 as a Watch List number. The

photostats in this series cover only those 4900 listings involving names also appearing in Daily

Report numbers below 3,000. Arranged by list, thereunder alphabetically by name of person, firm,

and organization.

Box 2 location: 650/43/22/01

Address Flexoline 1943-1945 (Entry UD 3)

Photostatic copy of an index to addresses which needed to be watched for security reasons.

 Also indexed are the names associated with an address, or whether an address was an “Any

Name” address. Arranged alphabetically by name of country, subdivided by city and street
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address.

Box 2 location: 650/43/22/01

Censorship Daily Reports 1941-1945 (Entry UD 6)

Brief printed digests of intelligence information concerning persons, firms, and

organizations of definite subversive interests or whose communications were particularly

informative, compiled by Censorship for the use of censors in writing more complete and accurate

submission slips as a result of having a background of facts concerning the subject. The

information ranged from the statement that nothing of a suspicious nature is known to a complete

statement of adverse activities. The following information on a subject was included when known:

true name and aliases, business and residential addresses, nationality and citizenship, occupation

and approximate income, general reputation, political affiliations and sympathies, family

connections, business, political, and personal associates, banking affiliations, sources of any

income not accounted for by ordinary legitimate commercial activities, and any discrepancy

between spending and earning habits. Arranged numerically, 1-8601, by Report numbers.

Boxes 3-6 location: 650/43/22/01

Source Material for Censorship Daily Reports 1941-1945 (Entry UD 7)

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, and teletypes furnishing information briefly

summarized in the Censorship Daily Reports. Also included are originals and copies of

correspondence, memoranda, and reports prepared by government agencies, copies of submission

slips, and copies of proposed Daily Reports. Arranged numerically, 3003-8601, by Report

Number. Source materials to deleted obsolete reports below 3,000 were destroyed. 

Boxes 7-34 location: 650/43/22/01

Weekly Censorship Reports August 1942-August 1944 (Entry UD 9)

Mimeographed summaries of selected quotations taken from intercepted communications

reflecting political and economic conditions abroad, and living conditions and morale in Germany

and German-occupied Europe. Arranged by Report number, 1-101.

Boxes 35-38. location: 650/43/22/06

Special Reports November 6, 1942-November 23, 1943 (Entry UD 10)

Hectographed compilations of quotations selected from letters handled in the censorship

process. Arranged by Report number, 1-82.

Boxes 39-40 location: 650/43/22/06

Traffic Analyses February 1943-May 1945 (Entry UD 11)

Hectographed copies of reports based on analyses of the intercepted communications of

specific persons, business firms, or organizations, each tying together a series of letters to tell a

story. Some of these stories include transactions in Swiss watches, illegal transfers of funds, and

attempts at evasions of export controls. Arranged chronologically. An alphabetical index to

names of parties involved is at the front of Accopress binder.

Box 41 location: 650/43/22/06

Special Watch Instructions April 8, 1943-August 9, 1945 (Entry UD 12)

Mimeographed copies of instructions for censors, numbered, 1-428, providing background

information on the persons requested to be watchlisted, the specific type of information desired by
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the interested agency, and the action to be taken by the censor. These instructions were devised

for the purpose of furnishing user agencies exactly and only what they desired, thereby eliminating

useless submissions. Arranged in two parts, Active SWIs and Canceled SWIs, thereunder

numerically by instruction number.

Box 42 location: 650/43/22/06

Index to Special Watch Instructions April 8, 1943-August 9, 1945 (Entry UD 13)

Typewritten list of Special Watch Instructions, recorded in numerical order, showing date

each was requested and the name of the requesting agency. Instructions which were later canceled

are indicated by red lines drawn through them, with the date of cancellation typed in red in the

margin.

Box 42 location: 650/43/22/06

Special Watch Instruction Cancellation and Amendment List May 1944-August 1945

(Entry UD 14)

Mimeographed lists, numbered 1-35, of cancellations, revisions, and amendments to

Special Watch instructions, with related correspondence and memoranda. Arranged numerically

by List number.

Box 43 location: 650/43/22/07

Agency Watch List Request File 1941-1945 (Entry UD 15)

Letters and memoranda received and copies of letters and memoranda sent relating to

requests by Government agencies, British Censorship, and branches of U.S. Censorship to have

certain suspect individuals, firms, and organizations placed on Censorship’s Watch List; copies of

Special Watch List Instructions prepared by requesting agencies; and lists of current Watch List

requests of particular agencies. Arranged alphabetically by agency, foreign censorship, and branch

of U.S. Censorship.

Boxes 44-57 location: 650/43/22/07

Correspondence Reporting Corrections to the Watch List November 1942-August 1945

(Entry UD 16)

Letters and memoranda received from field censorship stations reporting additions,

changes of address, and differences in spelling of watchlisted names on the basis of traffic

examined or of information in their possession; memoranda relating to telephonic instructions

received from the Federal Bureau of Investigation correcting names and addresses of subjects

watchlisted at the Bureau’s request; and mimeographed form requests by Censorship’s Technical

Operations Division to add, delete, or change names placed on the Watch List at their behest. 

Arranged in three parts, as described above, each part arranged chronologically. 

Box 57 location: 650/43/23/02

Proclaimed List Cloak File June 1943-June 1945 (Entry UD 17)

Correspondence and memoranda relating to aliases and addresses used as cloaks by

persons and firms listed on the Proclaimed List of Certain Blocked Nationals in order to obtain

mail or goods in circumvention of censorship and Government regulations, and to procedures for

the control of cloaks. Arranged Chronologically. Box 58 location: 650/43/23/02

Correspondence Relating to Local Watchlisting January 23, 1943-August 13, 1945

(Entry UD 18)
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Letters received and copies of letters sent, with related materials such as memoranda and

teletypes, relating to requests by Government agencies and branches of Censorship to place certain

names on Local Watch Lists at those stations where their mail was most likely to be intercepted. 

Arranged chronologically.

Box 58 location: 650/43/23/02

Miscellaneous Watch List Correspondence April 14, 1944-August 17, 1945

(Entry UD 20)

Correspondence and memoranda received and copies of correspondence and memoranda

sent relating to the allocation of submission slips to British Censorship, a comparison of the U.S.

Confidential List with the British Black List, the routing of submissions, and the preparation of

Special Watch Instructions. Arranged chronologically.

Box 58 location: 650/43/23/02

Card Index To the Watch List 1942-1945 (Entry UD 22)

Cards 4 x 6 inches, maintained for all names appearing on the official Watch List,

showing name and address, any aliases, date of watchlisting request, name of requesting agency,

code classification, any Special Watch Instructions issued on the name, and date of deletion. 

Arranged in two parts, Active File and Deleted File, thereunder alphabetically by name of subject

watched.

Boxes 1-19 location: 650/43/28/03

Records of the Postal Division

War Department Censorship Files June 1941-March 1942 (Entry 19)

Records of the Information Control Branch of the Military Intelligence Division relating to

the planning, organization, and early operations of postal censorship at headquarters and in the

military departments and corps areas under the direction of Army officers. The records (War

Department File MID 000.73) are mainly for the period from June 1941, when active War

Department preparation for postal censorship began, until March 1942, when the administration of

postal censorship was transferred to the Office of Censorship. The records consists of

correspondence, memoranda, reports, and related materials, and pertain to all aspects of postal

censorship, including the handling of privileged mail and “Watch-list” communications and the

exchange of intercepted information with British Imperial Censorship. Arranged by subject and

by department and corps area. Boxes 1291-1307 location: 650/27/28/03

Records of the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service (RG 262)

The Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service (FBIS), originally called the Foreign Broadcast Monitoring

Service, was established in the Federal Communications Commission in February 1941 to record, translate,

and analyze foreign broadcast programs and to report on them to interested Government agencies. 

Monitoring stations intercepted broadcasts of foreign news, intelligence, or propaganda emanating from

belligerent, occupied, and neutral countries. At the monitoring stations recordings, transcripts, and

translations of selected broadcasts were made and teletyped, cabled, or mailed to Washington headquarters

where they were edited and significant parts (occasionally full texts) teletyped to concerned Government

war agencies. Special analyses and daily and weekly summaries were also prepared at headquarters and

distributed to appropriate agencies and officials. On July 28, 1942, the Foreign Broadcast Monitoring

Service was renamed the Foreign Broadcast intelligence Service.

The FBIS was transferred to the War Department in December 1945 and placed under the Military
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Intelligence Division of the General Staff. On August 5, 1946, it was transferred to the Central

Intelligence Group of the National Intelligence Authority, where it was renamed the Foreign Broadcast

Information Service on November 1, 1946, and the Foreign Broadcast Information Branch on December

31, 1946. 

This record group comprises only records created by the FBIS and its predecessors. Records created after

December 31, 1946, by the Foreign Broadcast Information Branch (later Division) are among the records

of the Central Intelligence Agency (RG 263).

Central Files

Transcriptions

Transcripts of Monitored Foreign Broadcasts 1940-1946 (Entry 3)

English translations of foreign shortwave broadcasts, consisting of full texts, text

excerpts, and summaries sent to the national office by typed transcript, teletype, and cable.

Boxes 121-126 Berne December 1941-December 1946 location: 190/22/34/06

Box 606 Switzerland August-November 1946 location: 190/22/9/06

Records of the Princeton Listening Center

Transcripts of monitored shortwave broadcasts, 1941-1945.

Boxes 12-13 Switzerland; location: 190/23/30/01

Records of the Central Intelligence Agency (RG 263)

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was created under the National Security Act of 1947 (61 Stat. 495)

approved July 26, 1947, and established under the National Security Council in the Executive Office of the

President. The CIA inherited the personnel, property, and records of the Central Intelligence Group, which

had been set up under a Presidential directive of January 22, 1946, to assist the National Intelligence

Authority. Both the Central Intelligence Group and the National Intelligence Authority ceased to exist

when the terms of the 1947 act took effect.

The CIA correlates and evaluates intelligence relating to national security and disseminates it within the

Government. It also advises and makes recommendations to the National Security Council concerning

intelligence matters and performs, for the benefit of the existing intelligence agencies, such additional

services of common concern as the National Security Council decides can be more efficiently carried out

by a central organization.

Records of the Foreign Broadcast Information Branch, 1947-1948

The Foreign Broadcast Information Branch was the successor organization to the Foreign

Broadcast Intelligence Service (See Record Group 262). It became part of the Central Intelligence

Agency on July 26, 1947.

Transcripts and Memoranda

Daily English Transcripts and Summaries of Monitored Foreign Radio Broadcasts

January 1947-January 1948 (Entry 1)

Box # Monitored Location

19-20 Berne location: 190/24/17/06

261 Switzerland location: 190/24/22/05

The Murphy Collection on International Communism 1917-1958
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Boxes 82-84 pertain to Switzerland, ca. 1939-1954 and contains information relating to

German external assets and related matters. location: 190/25/1/03

Records of the Federal Reserve System (RG 82)

The Federal Reserve System was established as an independent agency by the Federal Reserve Act of

December 23, 1913. It serves as the national central bank. Among its duties are executing Federal

monetary policy; transferring funds; handling government deposits and debt issues; and supervising and

regulating banks.

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Board determine general monetary, credit, and operating

policies for the Federal Reserve System, and formulate rules and regulations necessary to carry out the

purposes of the Federal Reserve Act.

Records of the Board of Governors

Central Subject File 1913-1954 (Entry 1)

Box # Decimal #

655 301.231 Foreign Banks - Switzerland; contains information

about wartime and postwar dealings with Swiss banks. location:

450/63/31/02

2445-2447 550 Gold location: 450/64/32/05

The following Federal Reserve Board Records were accessioned in early March 1997 and should be

available for researchers in the near future. Please consult with the Archives II Textual Reference Branch

staff in Room 2600 as to the availability of the records and for information regarding the box numbers and

locations for the specific files:

Index of Items Pertaining to Nazi-Related Assets in the Federal Reserve Board Records Accessioned

Into the National Archives178

Switzerland

1. Banking, Bank Nationale Suisse, 1920-53

a) Highlights of the annual reports for 1939, 1941, 1943, and 1946 (Federal Reserve Board (FRB)

and Federal Reserve Board-New York (FRBNY) staff, 5/26/47, 7/13/44, 6/12/42,

4/13/40).

b) Memos on gold holdings and gold policy of Banque Nationale Suisse (FRB and FRBNY staff, 

1/5/44, 7/20/43, 5/4/43, 4/24/43, 3/24/43, 8/26/41, 5/17/38, 5/10/38, 4/4/38, 3/25/38,

3/17/38, 3/3/38, 2/10/38, 1/25/38, 1/18/38, 1/6/38, 12/28/37, 12/21/37, 12/9/37, 11/8/37,

5/25/37).

c) Memo on withdrawal of 100 million francs from the Swiss National Bank as part of settlement

of Allied claims on gold looted and resold by Germany to Switzerland during the war

(FRBNY staff, 2/20/47).

3. Finance, 1938-54

a) Memos on:

 

178 The following information about the records in this list was prepared by the Federal Reserve Board and

graciously made available to the preparer of this finding aid.
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Financial situation of Switzerland (FRBNY staff, 5/16/41)

German annexations of Swiss investments (American Consulate General in

Zurich, 9/20/39).

4. Gold, 1929-54

a) Memo on Swiss gold shipments to Germany (possibility that this unusually large shipment

consists of Czech gold which had been held under earmark in Switzerland, presumably at

the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) (FRBNY staff, 4/18/39)

b) Memos on:

Swiss government’s gold holdings (FRBNY staff, 7/26/46, 7/2/46),

French gold in Switzerland (gold of Bank of France) (FRB staff, 5/4/43),

Gold holdings of Swiss National Bank (FRB staff, 4/24/43),

Swiss gold holdings (FRB staff, 11/19/41),

Swiss gold transactions (FRB staff, 10/21/41, 10/18/41, 10/16/41, 8/11/41),

Swiss gold & banking fund in Second District (FRB staff, 8/21/41),

Swiss gold movements (FRBNY staff, 2/7/40, 3/1/39, 2/3/38)

Swiss gold shipments to Germany (FRBNY staff[?], 4/18/39)

5. General, 1929-54

a) Memos on:

Recent economic developments in Switzerland (section E on German assets in

Switzerland) (FRB staff, 4/29/53),

German-Swiss talks (? last word illegible) (re: Washington Agreement)

(FRB staff, 9/20/51),

German assets in Sweden and Switzerland (FRBNY staff, 10/23/45),

Postwar economic problems of Switzerland (Section 4 on foreign assets in Switzerland)

(by Kriz [FRBNY staff], 9/18/45),

Freezing of foreign funds in Switzerland and Sweden (FRBNY staff, 7/20/40),

International flight of capital to Switzerland in 1931 (FRB staff, 5/35, 12/34),

Gold and American assets held by Italy and certain Balkan countries

(FRBNY staff, 6/10/40),

Comments on cable re: Swiss gold movements (FRBNY staff, 6/3/40),

Swiss investments in the United States (FRB staff, 12/5/38)

Swiss restrictions on foreign funds and the Swiss Equalization Fund

(FRBNY staff, 12/28/37)

Germany

1. Economic and Political Position, 1937-1954

a) Paper, "Economic Coordination of Conquered Areas by Nazi Germany" (by R. Tirana [FRB or

FRBNY staff], 12/19/40). PP 30-78 are on money and banking in occupied areas, pp. 65-

70 in specific are on the disposition of monetary gold from central banks. On p. 67, the

author states "...the Bank for International Settlements, shortly after March 1939, took it

upon itself, apparently without adequate legal justification and merely with the

authorization of President Beyen, to obligingly transfer this third of the Czecho-Slovak

gold abroad to the German Reichsbank."

b) Paper, "Property Transferred Under the Nazi Regime in Germany" (by Foreign Economic

Administration, Liberated Areas Branch, 6/44). This paper deals with the
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theft/confiscation/pillage of private property by the Nazis, basically stating that it occurred

on a gigantic scale, listing the discriminatory laws that enabled this to occur, and giving

recommendations to the occupying military government to protect the dispossessed. The

paper is very general and gives no specific statistics with regard to the scope of the

problem.

2. Relations with Foreign Countries, 1937-44

a) Paper on repatriation of foreign securities in German hands (British Government, Ministry of

Economic Warfare, Enemy Branch, 3/23/44)

b) Memos on:

The German cost of occupation of France (FRBNY staff, 9/14/40),

Germany’s gain through Czech annexation (FRBNY staff, 3/17/39),

Austrian and German monetary reserves (FRBNY staff, 3/15/38)

3. Gold, 1927-54

a) Memo on German gold position (FRBNY staff, 4/11/45). Deals with monetary gold. P.2 states

"Czech gold worth 23 million dollars deposited with the B.I.S., and re-deposited by the

latter in London, was transferred by the Bank of England to a German account, but

apparently was never actually shipped to Germany."

b) Paper, "Gold Held in Germany" (by H. Dernburg [FRB staff], 4/45). Deals with monetary gold.

 P.3 states "In March 1939 Germany acquired from Czechoslovakia some 460 koruny of

gold equivalent to $16 million, as a reserve for the bank note circulation in the

Sudentenland annexed by Germany. After this transfer, the Czechoslovak National Bank

still retained a gold reserve of 1,570 koruny on deposit outside of the country, about 930

million with the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the rest with the Bank of

England. Immediately after the establishment of the Protectorate, the National Bank, now

under a "Special Commissioner" of the German Reichsbank, ordered the two institutions

to transfer the gold to Czechoslovakia. The Bank of England refused to transfer the gold

since the British Government had blocked all Czech funds in England to protect British

claims against Czechoslovak debtors. The BIS, however, consented to transfer the 930

million, most of which the institution had deposited in an earmarked account with the

Bank of England. The Bank of England permitted the transfer of this gold, but, according

to some reports, it took the form of a transfer of gold from one Bank of England

earmarked account to another, namely from that of the BIS to that of the Reichsbank. 

Because of the type of transfer which took place it appears that with the exception of the

460 million koruny previously mentioned no Czechoslovak gold was physically

transferred to Germany before the war."

c) Paper on distribution of looted gold recovered from Germany (by Kriz [FRBNY staff], 4/18/49)

(paper deals with monetary gold, not private assets)

d) Memos on:

German gold pool (FRB staff, 10/10/47),

The Axis and gold (FRBNY staff, 8/30/40),

German gold movements (FRBNY staff [?], 7/20/39, 3/27/39, 2/23/38),

Germany’s gold and devisen position (FRBNY staff, 9/30/37)

4. Gold, Gold Looted by Germany, 1945 -- contains detailed text and tables giving reserves, deposits of

gold, etc., prepared by the Office of Military Government for Germany (U.S.), (OMGUS) Division

of Investigation of Cartels and External Assets (DICEA). The file is comprised of papers on the
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following items:

a) Report on Gold of the Banca d’Italia Taken to Germany and Subsequently Entered on the Books

of the German Reichsbank (OMGUS, DICEA, 12/14/45).

b) Report on the Gold of the National Bank of Bohemia and Moravia Acquired by the Berlin

Reichsbank Subsequent to the Occupation of Prague (OMGUS, DICEA, 11/1/45).

c) The Hidden Gold-Reserve Program Initiated by the German Reichsbank During Schacht’s

Second Term of Office (OMGUS, DICEA, 11/14/45).

d) Report on the Gold of the Sparkasse Luxembourg Acquired by the Reichsbank, Berlin, from the

Banque de France in Marseilles (OMGUS DICEA, 10/21/45).

e) Gold, silver, platinum, foreign currency, etc., owned by the Japanese government or the Bank of

Japan (OMGUS, DICEA, 10/3/45).

f) Gold of the Banque Nationale de Belgique Acquired by the Reichsbank, Berlin, from the

Banque de France, Marseilles (OMGUS, DICEA, 8/23/45).

5. Finance, General, 1924-51

a) Memos on:

The status of German assets in Switzerland (re: disposition of German assets according to

the Washington agreement of 1946)

(FRBNY staff, 8/27/51)

Germany’s clearing debts to European countries (British Government, Ministry of

Economic Warfare, 4/19/44)

6. General, 1934 - Jun 1948

a) Paper on the treatment of German clearing balances, gold and occupation costs in the peace

settlement (FRB staff, 4/12/44)

b) Memos on:

Germany’s clearing debts to European countries (British Government, Ministry of

Economic Warfare, 4/19/44),

The ACC (Allied Control Council) directive concerning German external assets

 (FRB staff, 11/18/46),

German assets in Sweden and Switzerland (FRBNY staff, 10/23/45),

German and Italian retaliation to American freezing order

(FRBNY staff, 7/31/41)

7. Finance, War, 1941-1947

a) Papers on:

Foreign financial contributions to Germany during the war (FRB staff, 5/45)

Nazi war finance and banking (NBER, 9/10/43)

b) Memos on:

Methods of financial control employed by Germany in occupied territories (FRBNY staff,

2/25/43),

German war financing (FRB and FRBNY staff, 12/15/42, 10/19/42, 8/8/42,

2/10/42, 5/41),

Bank of France statement shows German preparation against a second front (FRBNY
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staff, 9/8/42),

French credits to Germany (FRB staff, 2/5/42),

European contributions to the German war economy

(FRBNY staff [?], 1/19/42)

8. Reoccupation Study, Civil Affairs Handbook, 1943-1952

a) Paper on German banking penetration in continental Europe (FRBNY staff, 9/44)

9. Banking: Reichsbank Direktorium, 1923 - 1954

a) Memos on:

Distribution of the Reichsbank’s profits (FRBNY staff, 4/27/44).

Reichsbank’s dollar transactions through Swiss banks (FRBNY staff, 7/7/41)

Attachment of Reichsbank funds in this (NY?) market (FRBNY staff, 11/15/40)

b) Translation of the decree governing the absorption of the Austrian National Bank by the

Reichsbank. (translation of decree by FRBNY, 3/17/38)

10. Banking: General, 1923-54

a) Memos on:

The functioning of the German commercial banking system during the war, including

tables detailing assets (FRBNY staff, 6/5/44; British Governmentt, Enemy

Branch, Foreign Office and Ministry of Economic Warfare, 7/44)

Penetration of German commercial banks in occupied Europe (by Pauline Reinsch [FRB

staff?], 2/1/43, 8/7/42)

Bank for International Settlements

1. General, 1936-1980

a) Memos on:

Compendium of info on BIS (FRB staff, 5/26/43). States that legally the BIS is Axiscontrolled.

Memos/letter on Voorhis Resolution for Congressional Investigation of BIS (FRB staff,

3/31/43, 3/29/43, 3/29/43, 1/19/45)

Copy of Voorhis Resolution (House of Representatives, 1/8/45)

British Government’s view of the activities of the BIS (FRB staff, 3/9/43)

Einzig articles on BIS (FRBNY staff, 3/9/43).

Application of BIS to use funds with the First National Bank of New York (FRB staff,

12/22/42)

Status of BIS (FRBNY staff, 12/9/42)

Ownership & control of BIS shares (FRBNY staff, 9/11/44, 5/18/44, 5/29/41, 6/28/40,

6/6/40, 6/3/40, 6/1/40)

Immunity of BIS assets in wartime (FRBNY staff, 5/31/39)

Letter to Secretary General of the League of Nations (State Dept., 7/29/38) stating that the

U.S. cannot at the present time become a signatory of the convention relating to

the interpretation of Article X (regarding privileges to be granted to the BIS) of

the Hague Agreement

Letters, regarding BIS short-term loans to other countries, that mention the U.S.

Government (NAC) deliberations re: BIS (NAC Secretary, FRBNY president,

FRB Chairman, 10/22/47, 10/21/47, 10/3/47, 11/4/47)
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Wartime activities and present position of the BIS

(by Kriz [FRBNY staff], 6/12/47)

Letters to Congress re: enclosed copy of Kriz’ memo on wartime activities of the BIS

(FRB & FRBNY staff, 2/19/48, 2/13/48)

Letter re: Kriz’ memo on wartime activities of the BIS. Reference that Gov. Frere and M.

Auboin (of the BIS) would like to have the info re: BIS’ wartime activities made

available to people in responsible positions) (FRBNY staff, 6/4/47)

Resumption of the meetings of the BIS Board of Directors

(by Kriz [FRBNY staff], 2/6/47)

Lending on gold by BIS (by Kriz {FRBNY staff], 12/21/46)

Letter/memo indicating that FRBNY withdrew its total balance from its account in the BIS

and the reasons for this. 

(FRBNY VP, FRB staff, 5/28/46, 5/23/46)

The extent of Germany’s and Japan’s interest in & control of the BIS

(FRBNY staff [?], 7/2/46)

Nature and status of BIS (FRBNY staff [?], 4/15/44)

Resume of historical American attitude toward the BIS

(FRB Governor, 3/15/50)

Letter, plus copy of agreement giving authoritative interpretation of the Hague

Agreements of 1930 re: rights & obligations of BIS

(BIS Chairman, 1/24/50)

Letters among Treasury, the BIS, FRB, and FRBNY re: BIS blocked assets in the U.S.

(Secretary of the Treasury, FRB staff, FRB Chairman pro tem, BIS Chairman,

4/5/48, 3/26/48, 3/31/48, 3/15/48, 3/12/48, 3/6/48, 3/6/48)

Memo/letter on status of NAC report on BIS

(FRB staff, NAC Acting Secretary, 12/4/47, 12/1/47)

Policy of U.S. govt toward the BIS (FRB staff [?], 1/22/48)

Possible functions of the BIS (BIS, 10/13/47)

Status, principal activities, and resources of the BIS

(by Kriz [FRBNY staff],11/26/47)

b) Two versions of Kriz’ paper on the BIS wartime activities and present position (FRBNY staff,

6/11/47, 3/11/47)

c) Speech delivered by M. Frere, Chairman of BIS, at 18th annual general meeting. Mentions

unblocking of BIS assets in the U.S. See pp. 4-7, 9. (BIS, 6/14/48)

d) Articles on the BIS, with sections on the BIS’ wartime activities (by M. Auboin [BIS], 5/55;

Mr. Schloss, 1958, 9/70; and the BIS, 5/80). Excerpt from The Morganthau Diaries:

Years of War, 1941-45 (1967)

2. Annual Reports, 1940-1954

a) Summaries of different chapters of BIS annual reports for 1944-45, 1943-44, FY42 [ending

3/31/43], 1941-mid42, 1940-mid41, FY40, FY39 (FRBNY staff, 3/24/44, 1/12/43,

12/22/42, 12/21/42, 12/21/42, 12/18/42, 12/18/42, 10/16/41, 9/29/41, 9/26/40, 9/23/40;

FRB Staff, 11/28/42; BIS[?]12/1/43)

b)Letter to BIS giving a wealth of economic/financial information on U.S. and other countries

(FRB staff, 2/21/41)

c) Summaries of chapters of postwar BIS annual reports for FY45, FY46, and FY47. Only

includes chapters concerning status of BIS, unblocking of BIS assets in U.S., BIS dealings
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with Germany, and movements of gold. (FRBNY staff, 8/6/48, 7/29/48, 8/20/47, 7/30/47,

10/7/46, 6/19/46, 3/21/46, 7/10/45, 7/6/45, 7/6/45, 6/23/45, 5/12/44, 4/17/44, 4/17/44,

4/8/44)

d) BIS press communique for the FY46 annual report (BIS, 6/16/47)

e) 13th and 18th BIS Annual Reports. In 18th Annual Report, see pp. 11-13.

(BIS, 6/43, 6/48)

Allied Reparations Commission

1. General, 1945-1946

a) Memos on German reparations (FRB and FRBNY staff, 1/9/46, 6/15/45)

b) List of FRB studies of various aspects of the German economy relevant to the reparations

problem (FRB staff, 5/10/45)

Capital Movements

1. General, 1930-45

a) Memos on:

Recent changes in Swiss, Dutch, French, and British accounts at FRBNY

(FRB staff, 2/27/39)

Gold and the capital inflow (FRB staff [?], 2/27/39)

Periods in short-term capital movement, 1935-36 (FRB staff [?], 12/29/38)

Tables showing gold and capital movement between the U.S. and foreign countries (FRB

staff, 11/29/38, 1/2/45, 2/11/45, 10/19/42)

Reports/memos/letters on recent developments in capital and gold movements and in

foreign exchange (FRBNY staff, 9/21/42, 8/6/42, 5/6/42, 2/25/42, 2/13/42,

9/23/41, 6/5/41, 12/16/40, 9/20/40, 7/17/40)

Table on distribution by countries of the deposits of foreigners in the 2nd Federal Reserve

District (FRB staff, 7/16/42)

Countries (other than Switzerland and Germany):

Argentina

1. Banking, Banco Central de la Republica Argentina, 1935-51

a) Memos on:

Gold and foreign exchange holdings of the Argentine Central Bank

(FRB and FRBNY staff, 3/21/51, 4/14/50, 4/23/48, 8/29/46)

Argentine gold transactions of Samuel Montagu and Co. (FRBNY staff, 8/9/46)

Nationalization of the Banco Central de la Republica Argentina

(FRBNY staff, 3/30/46)

Letter to Central Bank of Argentina re: Argentine gold holdings and exchange rate (FRB

staff, 2/20/46)

Ban on gold shipments to Argentina (FRB staff, 2/26/45, 9/13/44)

Argentine gold problem (FRB staff, 1/22/45)

Argentine participation certificates (FRBNY staff, 11/1/43, 10/7/43)

Summary of annual report of Banco Central of the Argentine Republic (FRBNY staff,

5/27/42, 5/6/41, 5/5/40)

Letter re: measures taken by the Central Bank in connection with foreign banks regarding
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the capital within the country (translation) (Source unknown but probably

Argentine, 3/1/42)

Gold items in annual report of the Central Bank of Argentina (FRB staff,

7/11/41)

Argentina: gold deposits for foreign account (FRBNY staff, 8/7/39)

Letter to FRB containing series for ’gold abroad and foreign exchange’ item of Argentine

central bank balance sheet (Banco Central de la Republica Argentina staff,

2/12/38)

Argentine foreign currencies fund (FRB staff [?], 6/22/36)

2. Banking, Banco Central de la Republica Argentina, Weekly Cables (New York Memos), 1942-43

a) Memos on interpretation of weekly cable from Buenos Aires (FRBNY staff, 3/17/43, 3/2/43,

2/15/43, 2/5/43, 2/1/43, 1/29/43, 1/13/43, 1/7/43, 12/30/42, 12/19/42, 12/16/42, 11/30/42,

11/19/42, 11/14/42, 11/5/42, 10/29/42, 10/19/42, 10/14/42, 10/5/42, 9/30/42, 9/21/42,

8/28/42, 8/22/42, 8/12/42, 7/29/42, 7/20/42, 7/13/42, 6/18/42, 6/3/42, 5/28/42, 5/20/42,

5/12/42)

3. Banking, General, 1924-49

a) Memos on:

Letter re: measures taken by the Central Bank in connection with foreign banks regarding

the capital within the country (translation) (Source unknown but probably

Argentine, 3/1/42)

Conversion in pesos of foreign currency accounts held by Argentine banks (FRBNY staff,

9/3/41)

4. Finance, 1937-51

a) Memo on telephone conversation with Mr. Hanson re: economic situation in Argentina. 

Discusses blocked Argentine balances in London, Argentina gold and foreign exchange

holdings (FRB staff [?], 12/2/40)

5. Gold, 1932-49

a) Memos on:

Argentine gold, dollar, and foreign exchange holdings (FRB and FRBNY staff, 3/3/49,

9/18/47, 7/24/47, 8/29/46, 1/28/43, 3/12/41, 2/15/41, 1/27/41, 12/3/40)

Blocked sterling in Argentina (FRB staff, 9/19/46)

Memos, cables, letters re: Argentine gold held under earmark in the U.S., suspension of

gold shipments from the U.S. to Argentina (FRBNY staff, 5/14/45, 5/7/45, 5/7/45,

4/30/45, 3/27/45 [includes letter from Treasury], 2/17/45, 8/14/44 [includes in

attachments cables from the Central Bank of Argentina]; State Dept, 3/3/45; FRB

staff, 2/21/45 [?], 2/20/45, 2/7/45, 1/26/45, 1/22/45, 1/20/45, 9/13/44)

Estimate of Argentine gold (FRB staff, 11/17/44)

Gold makes Argentina vulnerable (FRBNY staff, 8/25/44)

Gold shipments to Buenos Aires (FRBNY staff, 6/14/43)

Gold purchases by Argentina and Brazil (FRB staff, 10/6/42)

Argentine gold movements and foreign trade (FRB staff, 4/18/41)

Current comments on Argentina, including gold developments in 42Q3, gold and trade

movements 1940-41 (FRB staff [?], 10/5/42)

Sales of Argentine gold in Brazil (FRBNY staff, 4/24/40)

Argentine gold deposits for foreign account (FRBNY staff, 8/7/39)
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Invisible reserves in Argentina gold and foreign exchange representing holdings

accumulated in the secret funds set by the government since 1933

(FRBNY staff, 11/9/38)

Letter to FRB containing series for ’gold abroad and foreign exchange’ item of Argentine

central bank balance sheet (Banco Central de la Republica Argentina staff,

2/12/38)

6. General, 1918-1954

a) Memos on:

Argentine economic problems and the shifting pattern of economic policy. Section on

exchange reserves and foreign trade (FRBNY staff, 6/29/54)

Anglo-Argentine agreement on sterling balances and gold accumulated during the war

(FRB staff, 10/11/46 [?], 10/7/46)

Blocked sterling in Argentina (FRB staff, 9/19/46)

Dollar valuation of Argentine gold and foreign exchange (FRB staff, 8/29/46)

Laws governing the rights of foreigners to property in Argentina

(State Department, 3/46)

Inquiry of FRB of Chicago regarding trust accounts in Uruguay

(FRB staff, 5/15/46)

Creation of Political Economic Bureau in the Ministry of Finance of Argentina (FRBNY

staff, 4/24/46)

Letter to FRB staff requesting information on German investments in Argentina. FRB

staff response saying in essence "I’m working on it." No final reply in this file

from Board Records, however.

(League of Nations, 3/19/46; FRB staff, 4/17/46)

Profile of Willy Burhaus, Director of Banque Italo Belge in Buenos Aires and

Montevideo, suspected of being a Nazi sympathizer (Source unknown,

presumably foreign [the English is clear but not fluent], 12/31/44)

Speech by Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Republic, detailing the anti-Axis,

pro-Allied actions of the Argentine government

(Argentine Government, 7/26/44)

Argentine assets in the U.S. in light of recent blocking maneuvers

(FRBNY staff, 11/15/43)

Argentine dollar deposits in NY (FRBNY staff, 2/11/43)

Discussion of the ’neutral’ position of Argentina as shown in the comments of a prominent

Argentine lawyer. The author, H. Wallich, believes that the only question is

whether the Argentine Government is simply isolationist or whether it actually

favors Germany. (FRBNY staff, 10/7/42)

Argentine foreign funds control (FRBNY staff, 8/18/42, 6/19/42, 5/6/42)

International financial movement. Paper detailing Argentine regulations on international

financial transactions. Section III concerns Axis countries. (FRB staff [?],

6/15/42)

Treatment of dollar deposits to Argentina (FRBNY staff, 5/23/41)

Recent activity in Argentine accounts in NY (FRBNY staff, 5/17/41, 5/14/41)

Freezing regulations in Argentina (FRB staff, 3/24/41)

Summary of remarks by Mr. Verrier, head of the Research Department of the Central

Bank of Argentina. Discusses the central bank’s foreign exchange and gold

reserves. (FRBNY staff, 3/7/41)

Telephone call from Mr. Norman, Asst Financial Counselor to the Argentine Embassy re:
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Treasury regulations on the importation of securities. Discussion of blocked

Argentine deposits in Britain, gold reserves and movements (FRB staff, 6/8/40)

Argentine Foreign Currencies Fund (FRBNY staff, 6/22/36)

Estimated Balance of Payments of Argentina, including gold movements

(FRB staff [?], 6/7/33)

Austria

1. Banking, Oesterreichische Nationalbank, 1923-54

a) Letter to FRBNY re: reestablishment of Austria’s account with FRBNY and asking procedure to

be followed re: depositing with FRBNY Austria’s share of "gold pot" (i.e., monetary gold

reparations) (Minister of Austria, 10/30/47)

b) Memos on:

Postwar status of Austrian National Bank (FRBNY staff, 11/10/47)

Austrian banking situation (FRBNY staff, 4/18/38)

Austrian monetary situation (FRBNY staff, 4/14/38)

2. General, 1923-48

a) Papers/memos on:

Austrian finance. Paragraph on p. 2 deals with problem of German assets from the war. 

(FRB staff, 6/48)

Austria’s ability to repay (FRB staff, 10/28/46)

Financial policy in liberated Austria. Beginning p.9, section on reparation problems.

(FRB staff, 1/45)

3. Reoccupation study, Civil Affairs Handbook, 1943

a) Paper on money and banking in Austria. Discusses central bank, sequestration of property of

anti-Nazis and Jews. See pp. 68-72. (FRB staff, 11/43)

Belgium

1. Reconstruction and Recovery, Foreign Economic Administration Mission to London, 1943 - June

1944

a) Paper money and banking. Section beginning p. 118 on the invasion crisis and the exile of the

National Bank, including what happened to Belgian central bank gold. (FRB staff, 6/44)

2. Banking, Banque Nationale de Belgique, 1923-54

a) Memos on:

Position of the National Bank of Belgium, based on balance sheet figures for 1938-44 (by

Kriz [FRBNY staff], 10/8/45)

Belgium National Bank statement of 1/11/45 (FRBNY staff, 2/23/45)

Translation of article [?] discussing the development of the National Bank of Belgium in

1942 in the light of the balance sheet of 12/25/42

(Echo de la Bourse [?], 1/27/43)

Balance sheets of the Belgian National Bank andthe Bank of Issue in Brussels (FRBNY

staff, 4/25/41)

New Belgian central bank (FRBNY staff, 9/17/40, 8/16/40)

Letter to FRBNY re: transfer of funds from Belgium to the U.S.
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(Governor’s Office of Bank Nationale de Belgique, 3/25/39)

3. Gold, 1926-54

a) Memos on:

Gold purchases of the Belgian Bank of Issue (FRBNY staff, 9/17/47)

Belgium’s loan of gold to Britain in March 1941 (FRBNY staff, 4/15/43)

Letter to U.S. Treasury Department. on gold transaction between National Bank of

Belgium and the Bank of France from 5/8/40-6/25/40

(FRB staff, 2/6/41)

Belgian gold holdings (FRB and FRBNY staff, 10/18/40, 6/24/38)

Gold reserves of Belgian govt (FRB staff, 8/23/40)

Gold holdings of Belgium and the Netherlands (FRBNY staff, 5/10/40)

4. General, 1932-August 1946

a) Memos on:

Foreign assets of Belgian individuals and corporations (FRB staff, 10/4/45)

Report to Office of Army-Navy Liquidation Commissioner on Belgium. Short section on

central bank reserves and international financial position (FRB staff, 7/24/45)

Survey of post-war financial needs (FRB staff, 6/14/45)

Belgium’s dollar assets (FRBNY staff, 4/5/45)

Paper on money and banking in liberated Belgium (FRB staff, 4/45)

Paper on general and economic info and background history of Belgium. Beginning p. 18,

section on Belgian gold. (FRB staff, 7/18/44)

Paper on the economy of Belgium. Short section, pp. 11-12, on German acquisition of

Belgian property (Source unknown [FRB staff?], 3/2/43)

Brazil

1.Banking, Banco do Brazil, 1923-53

a) Memos on:

Gold and foreign exchange holdings of Brazil (FRB staff, 6/12/47)

Japanese dollar credits with the Bank of Brazil (Consular report from Rio de Janeiro,

 7/30/41)

Bank of Brazil to hold official dollar accounts of Japan and Portugal

(FRB staff, 11/26/40)

2. Banking, General, 1939-54

a) Memo on Banco Alianca do Rio de Janeiro, S.A., which was on a list of blocked nationals for a

short while (FRB staff [?], 6/22/45)

3. General, 1927-54

a) Memos on:

Operations under the U.S.-Brazilian stabilization agreement. Gives gold and foreign

exchange assets of the Banco do Brazil (FRBNY staff, 2/16/48)

Gold purchases by Argentina and Brazil (FRB staff, 10/6/42)

Transfer of Japanese funds from NY to Brazil (FRBNY staff, 5/5/41)

Sales of Argentine gold in Brazil (FRB staff, 4/24/40)

Brazilian gold purchases (FRBNY staff, 2/2/40)

Report to the Executive Committee on Commercial Policy Relative to the Funding of
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American Blocked Balances in Brazil

(FRB staff [?], 12/13/34)

Blocked credits in Brazil (FRB staff [?], 12/10/34)

Bulgaria

1. Reoccupation study, Civil Affairs Handbook, 1943

a) Paper on money and banking in Bulgaria. Contains table giving central bank assets 1940-43. 

See p. 94. (FRB staff, 9/43)

2. General, 1938-1954

a) Memo on gold and dollar resources of Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Turkey

(FRBNY staff, 2/19/41)

Czechoslovakia

1. Banking, Narodni Banka Ceskoslovenska, 1923-1954

a) Reports on condition of Czechoslovak National Bank as a result of the recent crisis in 9/38

(Consular reports, 10/10/38, 10/10/38)

2. Banking, General, 1923-47

a) Memo on annual report of National Bank of Bohemia and Moravia for 1939 (FRBNY staff,

4/17/40)

3. Finance, 1937-46

a) Memo on Czech monetary reserve and foreign debt (FRBNY staff, 3/15/39)

4. Gold, 1929-43

a) Memo on Czech gold and devisen holdings (FRBNY staff, 4/21/39)

5. Reoccupation study, Civil Affairs Handbook, 1943-1945

a) Memos on:

Gold of the Czechoslovak National Bank. Discusses BIS transfer of Czechoslovak gold to

German account and subsequent blocking of Czech funds by Deputy Manager of

the National Bank, who had fled to Switzerland and ordered the blocking. (FRB

staff [?], 8/24/44)

Czech gold. Brief mention of transfer of small amount of Czech gold to London. (FRB

staff [?], 8/15/44)

b) Paper on money and banking in Czechoslovakia. Gives assets of central bank, 1939-44. 

Discusses transfer of Czech gold to German account by BIS and subsequent blocking of

Czech funds by Deputy Manager of the National Bank, who had fled to Switzerland and

ordered the blocking. See pp. 134-136, 184-187, 226-227. (FRB & FRBNY staff, 5/45)

6. General, 1922-54

a) Memos on:

Official Czechoslovak balances in this market (meaning U.S.? 2nd FR District?) (FRBNY

staff, 8/15/41)

Czechoslovakian deposits in 2nd FR District (FRBNY staff, 10/19/40)

Article on the Czech crown under Nazi rule (The Economist, 5/18/40)
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Germany’s gain through Czech annexation (FRBNY staff, 3/17/39)

Danzig, Free City of

1. General, 1939-40

a) Translation of decree concerning the taking over of the Bank of Danzig by the German

Reichsbank (Reichsgesetzblatt I, 9/5/39)

Denmark

1. Reoccupation study, Civil Affairs Handbook

a) Paper on money and banking in Denmark. Gives assets of central bank, 1940-44. See p. 130.

(FRB and FRBNY staff, 6/45)

2. General, 1923-54

a) Personal request to FRB for unblocking of specific Danish bonds held by the individual

(Swiss[?] private citizen, 4/3/48)

b) Memos on:

Report to the Office of Army-Navy Liquidation Commissioner on Scandinavian countries

of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (FRB staff [?], 7/17/45)

Gold coverage for Danish note circulation (FRBNY staff, 12/15/41)

Danish funds in New York (FRBNY staff, 12/3/41, 11/21/41)

Economic developments in Denmark since 4/41 (FRBNY staff, 11/5/41)

Swedish-Danish-German triangular payments. Mentions Danish blocked funds in NY

(FRBNY staff, 7/10/40)

Principles for administering control of Danish and Norwegian property (FRB

 staff [?], 4/13/40)

Dollar resources of Scandinavia: other recent developments (FRBNY staff, 4/9/40)

Europe

1. General, 1922-42

a) Memos on:

Allied policy toward German purchases of property in Europe

(FRBNY staff, 4/16/42)

Recent European gold developments (FRBNY staff, 8/27/40)

Finland

1. Banking, Finlands Bank, 1923-53

a) Memo on the position of the Bank of Finland (FRBNY staff, 1/15/41)

2. General, 1930-54

a) Memo on dollar resources of Scandinavia (FRBNY staff, 4/9/40)

France

1. Banking, Banque de France, 1919-1944

a) Memos on:

Bank of France statement shows German preparation against a 2nd front (FRBNY staff,
256

9/8/42)

Revaluation of the Bank of France gold reserve (FRBNY staff, 3/1/40)

2. Banking, Banque de France, Statements (New York memos), 1937-1945

a) Memos on Bank of France statements (FRBNY staff, 2/15/45, 8/14/41, 1/12/39, 3/9/39,

3/2/39, 2/23/39, 2/18/39, 2/9/39, 2/2/39, 1/28/39, 1/19/39, 1/5/39)

3. Economic conditions, 1935-Apr46

a) Paper on the effects of WWII on the economy of France. Contains sections on Bank of France’s

assets, German acquisition of French property, reparations for French property taken by

Germany. (Source unknown [FRB staff?], 2/25/43)

4. Finance, General, 1938-54

a) Memos on:

Suggested disposal of uncertified blocked assets

(by Kriz, [FRBNY staff], 11/24/47)

Statement re: National Solidarity Tax implications for, among other things, American

holdings blocked in France during the war

(Embassy of France to the U.S., 5/7/46)

French dollar balances held by the Bank of Canada (FRBNY staff, 2/5/45)

Memo/press article on occupation costs paid by the French Government to Germany

(FRBNY staff, Associated Press, 9/13/43, 8/26/41, 7/15/41, 9/14/40)

Preliminary notes on French international financial position

(FRBNY staff, 1/2/45)

5. Gold, 1920-54

a) Memos on:

Sale of gold by Bank of France. Mentions French repayment of Belgian gold that the

French turned over to the Germans in 1940.

(FRB staff [?], 6/8/45)

France-U.S., short term assets and gold (FRB staff, 12/16/43)

French gold in Switzerland (FRBNY staff, 5/4/43)

French gold reserves (FRB or FRBNY staff [?], 6/14/43)

News articles on French gold (The London Economist, 3/15/41; New York Sun, 3/11/41;

The Financial News, 11/12/40)

The ownership of gold earmarked for French account (FRB or FRBNY staff,

6/19/40)

French gains of gold and foreign exchange since November (FRB staff, 3/2/39)

Effect of special gold arrangement with France in spring of 1935 on reported capital

movement, (FRB staff [?], 1/20/39)

 6. Reoccupation study, Civil Affairs Handbook, 1943-1944

a) Paper, plus addendum, on money and banking in France. Contains information on occupation

costs paid by the French, assets of the Bank of France, Belgian monetary gold held by the

Bank of France and given to Germany, the removal of almost all of the Bank of France’s

gold holdings to other countries before the German occupation. See pp. 174-181 of paper.

 (FRB staff, 9/43, 9/44)

7. General, 1937-1951
257

a) Memos on:

Letters/memos to Federal Reserve Board re: claim of Alfred Bergman against the French

Government arising out of services purporting to have been rendered to General

de Gaulle, beginning about April 1941, in connection with obtaining the release

of French Government funds then blocked by the U.S. Treasury Department.

(FRBNY and FRB staff, 3/28/49, 2/9/49, 1/19/49, 5/27/48)

French loans and possible use of gold (FRB staff [?], 1/29/46)

Report to the Office of Army-Navy Liquidation Commissioner re: France. Contains

information on French gold assets remaining practically intact during the war.

(FRB staff [?], 7/18/45)

Excerpt from pp. 66,113-3 of CCH War Law Service -- Foreign Supplement re: French

requisition of U.S. dollar accounts

(French Government [?], 9/27/44)

French funds in New York (FRBNY staff, 2/19/43)

Frozen French assets (FRBNY staff, 2/3/43)

Dollar funds of the Fighting French funds (FRBNY staff, 11/6/42, 10/1/42, 8/7/42)

New light on German control over the French chemical industry

(FRBNY staff, 4/22/42, 12/24/41)

French interests in the Hungarian General Credit Bank (FRBNY staff, 1/16/41)

Economic significance of the French capitulation. Gives figures, as of end-February,

1940, for French gold stock and for French banking funds and other short-term

assets other than gold in the U.S.

(FRB-Chicago staff, 6/26/40)

Effect of special gold arrangement with France in spring of 1935 on reported capital

movement, (FRB staff [?], 1/20/39)

Hungary

1. Banking, National bank of Hungary, 1929-48

a) Memos on:

Status of National Bank of Hungary (FRBNY staff, 10/9/45)

Change in gold stock of National Bank of Hungary (BIS press review, 1/20/42)

Annual report of the National Bank of Hungary (FRBNY staff, 4/21/41)

2. Gold, 1932-46

a) Memos on:

Hungarian gold and foreign exchange situation (FRB staff, 3/29/46)

Hungarian gold and dollar resources (FRBNY staff, 2/20/41)

Revaluation of Hungarian gold and devisen reserve (FRBNY staff, 2/6/39)

3. General, 1923-50

a) Memo on the Russian grip on Hungary. Relates to the settlement of Russian claims against the

Hungarian clearing debt to Germany; this debt was regarded by the Soviet authorities as a

German asset under the terms of the Potsdam Declaration. (FRBNY staff, 5/7/48)

Italy

1. Banking, Banca d’Italia, 1923-54

a) Memos on:
258

Annual report of the Bank of Italy, 1945 (FRBNY staff, 7/19/46)

Balance sheet data of the Bank of Italy, 1940-45 (FRBNY staff, 3/19/46)

Appointment of Luigi Einaudi as Governor of Bank of Italy. Mentions that previous

Governor, Vincenzo Assolini, was sentenced to prison for assisting the Germans

to seize the gold held in the vaults of the Bank of Italy. (FRBNY staff, 1/6/45)

Trial of Vincenzo Assolini (FRBNY staff, 10/11/44)

2. Gold, 1932-54

a) Memos on:

Value of a ton of gold. Gives figure for Italian gold reserves at end-1940. (FRB staff [?],

11/22/44)

Gold and American assets held by Italy and certain Balkan countries

(FRBNY staff, 6/10/40)

3. Reoccupation, General, 1943

a) Paper on foreign investments seized in Italy (U.S. Government, Office of Economic Warfare,

Blockade and Supply Branch, Reoccupation Division, 9/43)

4. General, 1915-47

a) Memos on:

Economic reconstruction of Italy (FRB staff, 5/25/45)

German and Italian retaliation to American freezing orders

(FRBNY staff, 7/31/41)

Japan

1. Banking, Bank of Japan, 1923-54

a) Memo, paper on:

Weekly statement of the Bank of Japan. Contains a summary of the changes between

9/27/41 and 3/25/44 (FRBNY staff, 1/4/45)

Role of the Bank of Japan in the Japanese war effort

(Commerce Department, 4/44)

2. General, 1922-50

a) Memos on:

Certified copies of Board’s records for use in Tokyo trials

(FRB staff, 6/5/46, 5/28/46)

Memos. letters on transfer of Japanese funds to Brazil

(War Department, 6/3/46; FRBNY staff, 5/5/41, 3/26/41)

Bank of Brazil to hold official dollar accounts of Japan and Portugal

(FRB staff, 11/26/40)

Article, memos on freezing of Japanese funds

(Foreign Commerce Weekly, 1/17/42; FRBNY staff, 4/8/41)

American investments in Japan and Japanese investments in the U.S.

(FRBNY staff, 2/3/41, 9/11/40)

Japanese dollar balances (FRBNY staff, 11/29/40, 10/19/40)

3. Gold, 1928-54
259

a) Memos, letters on:

Gold held in Japan claimed by Siam (FRBNY staff, 5/4/48)

Japanese gold reserves, assets (FRB and FRBNY staff, 7/1/44, 3/31/41, 7/19/40, 5/7/40,

2/29/40, 9/29/38)

Japanese gold movements (FRB staff [?], 1/10/42, 9/16/39)

Japan’s undisclosed gold stock (FRBNY staff, 9/10/40)

4. International Position, 1937-46

a) Memo on Japan’s international assets (FRBNY staff, 12/28/38)

Netherlands

1. Banking, De Nederlandsche Bank N V, 1923-1954

a) Memos on:

Netherlands Bank advances on gold (FRBNY staff, 7/20/44)

Netherlands Bank informs FRBNY that the right to dispose of gold account "F" and dollar

account "F" with FRBNY no longer belongs to the Netherlands Bank but has been

transferred to the Netherlands Government effective 5/13/40 (FRBNY staff[?],

5/22/40)

2. Reoccupation Study, Civil Affairs Handbook, 1944

a) Study on money and banking in the Netherlands. Section on the period of occupation discusses

anti-Jewish measures and what happened to Dutch assets. See pp. 137-147. (FRB staff,

7/44)

3. General, 1923-54

a) Memos on:

Netherlands claim for war damage (Conference for Reparation Payments at Paris,

1/22/46)

Report to the Army-Navy Commissioner on the Netherlands

(FRB staff, 7/25/45)

Letter giving BIS figures on Netherlands clearing claims and occupation costs (FRB staff,

4/6/44; excerpt from the 13th BIS Annual Report)

Royal Netherlands Decree of 5/24/40 (FRB staff, 5/26/43)

Dutch accounts in the U.S. (FRB staff, 12/21/42)

Norway

1. Banking, Norges Bank, 1923-1954

a) Memos on:

History and condition of the Norges Bank in exile (FRBNY staff, 7/16/42)

Accounts of the years 1940-41, with observations explaining the accounts (Norges Bank

in London, 6/30/42)

The Bank of Norway. Last paragraph says gold holdings of the Bank of Norway were

removed from the country before and during the invasion by Germany. (FRBNY

staff, 1/3/41)

Letter to FRBNY from the State Department stating the authority of the Minister of

Norway in Washington to operate all accounts and other assets in the U.S.

belonging to the Norwegian Government, the Norges Bank, and all other
260

Norwegian Government institutions of any kind (State Department, 5/8/40 [with

attachments from the State Department and the Government of Norway]

2. General, Nov 1921-1954

a) Memos on:

Norway’s gold and foreign exchange holdings (FRB staff [?], 8/20/46)

Report to the Office of the Army-Navy Commissioner on Scandinavian countries (FRB

staff, 7/17/45)

Public finance in Norway (British Government, Ministry of Economic Warfare, 9/7/42)

 FR comments on the cost of German occupation to Norway (FRB staff and National War

Agencies, 8/24/42)

Norway’s economic hardships (Norwegian Liaison Office in Sweden, 4/27/42)

Article on gold reserves in Denmark and Norway (The Economist, 4/13/40)

Dollar resources of Scandinavia (FRBNY staff, 4/9/40)

Philippines

1. General, 1934-Jun 1946

a) Memos on:

Repayment of bank loans in the Philippines. P. 4 states that the capital of foreign banks

was confiscated. (FRBNY staff, 9/12/45)

Letters re: freezing of Philippine assets in the U.S. (FRB staff, 1/20/42; Resident

Commissioner of the Philippines to the United States, 1/15/42)

Poland

1. Banking, Bank Polski, 1923-49

a) Memos on:

Bank Polski and Polish gold (FRB staff, 10/7/46, Bank Polski, 12/5/40)

Storage of Bank Polski notes (FRBNY staff, 3/1/43)

2. Banking, National Bank of Poland, 1946

a) Memo on Bank Polski and Polish gold (FRB staff, 10/7/46)

3. Gold, 1928-47

a) Memos on:

1938 decree mandating the report and offer of residents’ gold holdings to the Bank of

Poland (FRBNY staff, 7/15/47)

The odyssey of Bank Polski’s gold holdings, from invaded Poland, to France, to Senegal,

to the U.S. (FRB and FRBNY staff, 6/20/44, 3/10/44, 4/1/43, 8/29/40)

Polish gold (FRBNY staff, 3/28/44)

4. General, 1907-50

a) Memos on:

Paper on economic and financial developments in Poland. P. 41 mentions Polish gold

during the war (FRB staff, 12/46)

Polish situation. Section on Polish assets in the U.S. (FRB staff, 3/21/46)

Polish assets in the U.S. (FRB staff [?], 3/30/42)
261

Rumania [sic]

1. Banking, Banque Nationale de Roumanie, 1923-47

a) Memos on:

Rumanian National Bank. Mentions gold stocks. (BIS Press Review, 3/11/42)

News article on Rumanian funds (N.Y. Herald Tribune, 7/17/41)

Rumanian gold reserve (FRBNY staff, 5/20/40)

2. General, 1934-54

a) Memos on:

Rumanian gold. (FRBNY staff, 11/10/43, 5/20/40)

Rumania. Mentions gold & dollar assets in the U.S. (FRB staff, 1/5/43)

Rumanian assets in England (FRBNY staff, 9/21/40)

Sweden

1. Banking, Sveriges Riksbank, 1917-54

a) Memos on:

Sveriges Riksbank advances on gold (FRBNY staff, 7/20/44)

Summaries of 1942, 1940 annual reports for Sveriges Riksbank

(Legation of Sweden in NY, 6/21/43; FRBNY staff, 4/1/41)

Increase in gold holdings of Swedish Riksbank (FRBNY staff, 6/9/43)

Comparison of gold and foreign exchange holdings of the Swedish Riksbank and the

Swiss National Bank with the amounts held in NY by these banks (FRBNY staff,

8/26/41)

Swedish and Netherlands accounts with FRBNY (FRB staff, 5/23/40)

Draft letter to FRBNY re: authority of Messrs. Bostrom and Eriksson to dispose of certain

assets of Sveriges Riksbank (State Department, 5/22/40)

Change in gold cover for Swedish note issue (FRBNY staff, 2/1/40)

2. Gold, 1930-43

a) Memos on:

The Swedish gold market (FRBNY staff, 9/19/40)

Loss of Swedish gold and dollars (FRBNY staff, 3/19/40)

3. General, 1918-54

a) Memos on:

Swedish-Allied agreement on German assets (FRBNY staff, 8/9/46)

German assets in Sweden and Switzerland (FRBNY staff, 10/23/45)

Summary of Swedish Business Cycle Institute’s report on Swedish economic outlook,

Autumn 1941. Contains some information on the Riksbank’s foreign assets

(Legation of Sweden in NY, 3/30/42)

Swedish gold, exchange, and trade policies (FRB staff [?], 1/15/42)

Sweden’s efforts to forestall freezing of funds (FRBNY staff, 3/17/41)

Regulations concerning disposal in Sweden of foreign-owned Swedish securities (FRBNY

staff, 12/11/40)

Freezing of foreign funds in Switzerland and Sweden (FRBNY staff, 7/20/40)

Swedish-Danish-German triangular payments (FRBNY staff, 7/18/40)
262

The Swedish money and capital market, January-May 1940

(Sveriges Riksbank, 7/3/40)

Dollar resources of Scandinavia (FRBNY staff, 4/9/40)

United Kingdom

1. Gold, 1918-54

a) Memos on:

United Kingdom purchases of gold from non-residents (FRBNY staff, 10/24/40)

Article on foreign gold in London (The Economist, 9/21/40)

British and French gold reserves (FRB staff, 5/31/30)

British restrictions on gold transactions (FRBNY staff, 3/20/40)

International assets and liabilities of the United Kingdom, 1938-46

(Source unknown, FRB? 7/2/47)

Uruguay

1. Banking, Banco de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay, 1927-51

a) Memos on:

Reserve requirements in Argentina and Uruguay (FRBNY staff, 5/10/44)

Summary of the annual report of the Banco de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay

(FRBNY staff, 9/16/42)

Sending of funds to countries under military occupation: supplementary resolution (Banco

de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay, 5/29/40)

2. Gold, 1932-48

a) Memos on:

Gold purchases of the Uruguayan Banco de la Republica

(FRBNY staff, 1/22/48)

Uruguayan holdings of dollar exchange and gold (FRBNY staff, 3/25/43)

3. General, 1932-52

a) Letter on Uruguay’s gold, foreign exchange holdings, and exchange rate

(FRB staff [?], 12/11/45)

Yugoslavia

1. Banking, Banque Nationale du Royaume de Yugoslavie, 1923-1944

a) Memos on:

Unreported gold stocks of the National Bank of Yugoslavia

(FRBNY staff, 4/3/41)

Yugoslav gold and dollar operations (FRB staff, 3/28/41)

2. Gold, 1941-48

a) Memos on:

Movements of Yugoslav gold (FRB staff, 4/26/48, 4/23/48)

Laws regarding private ownership of gold in prewar Yugoslavia

(FRB staff [?], 7/15/47)

Gold and dollar assets held by Yugoslavia (FRBNY staff, 5/21/42)
263

Gold reserves of Yugoslavia and Greece (FRBNY staff, 4/19/41)

Yugoslav gold and dollar operations (FRB staff, 3/28/41)

Gold and dollar resources of Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Turkey

(FRBNY staff, 2/19/41)

3. Reoccupation study, Civil Affairs Handbook, 1944

a) Paper on money and banking in Yugoslavia. Gives central bank holdings of monetary gold,

1939-42. See pp. 36-37, 88-89. (FRB staff, 1/44)

4. General, 1927-54

a) Paper, memo on:

Economic and financial developments in Yugoslavia. Section on reparations by

Yugoslavia. (FRB staff, 6/46)

Control of foreign capital investments in Yugoslavia (FRBNY staff, 3/19/41)

Economic and Financial Conditions

1. General, Jan 1949-Jun 1950

a) List of U.S. Government records relating to foreign economic operations in WWII. See pp.

6,12,15,17. (U.S. govt, National Security Resources Board, Records Service and

Management Branch, General Research and Reports Division, 4/11/49)

Foreign Accounts

1. General, 1927-54

a) Memos on:

Gold custody accounts in 46Q3 (FRB staff [?], 10/22/46)

Foreign official balances (FRB staff, 6/3/46)

Reichsbank account at FRBNY (FRB staff, 10/15/45, 8/20/45)

Opening of accounts at New York Bank (FRB staff, 11/12/43)

Operations in foreign accounts at FR banks (FRB and FRBNY staff, 9/28/43, 

6/29/43, 3/27/39)

Foreign accounts at FRBNY (FRB staff, 1/16/43)

Summary of FRBNY Executive Committee meeting of 7/10/41. Meeting concerned

developments re: FRBNY’s foreign accounts resulting from enactment of law

amending Section 25(b) of the Federal Reserve Act. This law required

certification of foreign authorities by their governments, with these certifications

accepted by the State Department. Contains information on FRBNY accounts for

most European countries (FRBNY staff, 7/16/41)

Analyses of Government accounts at New York Bank (FRB staff, 6/12/41)

Accounts of Norges Bank and Norwegian govt (FRB staff [?], 3/27/41)

Status of U.S. recognition of the governments of various European countries

(FRB staff [?], 2/4/41)

Belgian decree conferring competence with regard to the National Bank of Belgium,

12/16/40 (Military Commander in Belgium and Northern France, 12/16/40

[translated by BIS])

Foreign accounts with respect to which special authorities are now, or recently have been,

in effect (FRBNY staff [?], 9/23/40)

Belgian decree concerning the Bank of Issue in Brussels, 6/27/40 (Collection of Decrees

of the Military Commander in Belgium and Northern France, 5th issue, 7/6/40
264

[translated by BIS])

Foreign Aid Programs

1. General

a) Folder with Economic Recovery Program (ERP) miscellaneous papers, including short papers

on restitution of looted gold, the possibility of liquidating European investments in the

U.S., blocked foreign assets in the U.S. (U.S. Government, different agencies, 11/2/47)

b) Papers on:

Interim European Aid. Section on p. 15 on Austria: restitution of looted gold. (U.S.

Governmentt, Congress [?], 9/23/48)

Briefing material on ERP for Secretary Snyder. Contains sections on the possibility of

liquidating European investments in the U.S., blocked foreign assets in the U.S.,

restitution of looted gold. Possibly these are the same papers listed in 1a above.

(assembled by Treasury staff, 1947[?])

Foreign Funds Control

1. General, 1940-54

a) Memos on:

Memos, papers, letters, telegrams, and press releases re: blocked foreign assets in the U.S.

(letter from Dr. Wenholdt of the Netherlands, 6/28/48;

FRB staff, 6/30/48, 5/7/48, 4/28/48, 2/13/48, 2/11/48, 2/11/48 [?], 1/12/48,

4/6/43, 4/29/42, 3/17/42 (?), 3/6/42 (?), 1/14/42, 8/28/41 [?], 4/19/41 [?],

4/8/41 [?], 7/2/40, 6/19/40 [?], 5/7/40 [?], 4/26/40, 4/26/40, 4/24/40,

4/23/40, 4/23/40, 4/15/40, 4/13/40, 4/13/40 [?], 4/12/40, 4/11/40,

4/10/40, 4/10/40;

Department of Justice press release, 9/29/48;

Treasury staff, letters, press releases, and telegrams, 3/1/48, 2/2/48, 8/26/47,

6/21/43, 12/11/41, 11/30/41, 5/10/40, 4/19/40, 4/10/40, 4/10/40, 4/10/40,

4/10/40, 4/10/40;

IBRD, 1/5/48;

FRBNY staff, 12/12/47, 11/28/47, 11/24/47, 11/24/47, 7/14/47, 4/11/47, 2/21/47,

2/20/47, 10/11/45, 2/20/43, 2/3/43, 9/23/42, 2/26/42, 2/4/42, 9/10/41,

6/16/41, 4/7/41, 4/1/41, 3/17/41, 7/20/40, 7/18/40, 6/8/40 [?], 4/9/40;

State Department press release, 7/8/46;

FRB Philadelphia staff with attached telegram from French Financial Attache,

 6/11/45;

Foreign Credit Interchange Bureau, 12/12/41;

Reuters [?], 6/11/40)

Foreign funds control in the U.S. (FRB staff[?], 7/24/41, 7/14/41)

Foreign funds black lists (FRB staff, 7/21/41, 7/11/41)

Vatican’s problems under foreign funds control (FRB staff, 8/26/41)

U.S. importers’ problems due to freezing orders (FRB staff, 8/19/41, National Council of

American Importers, Inc., 8/8/41)

Investment of Bank of France funds (FRB staff, 8/7/41)

German and Italian retaliation to American freezing orders

(FRBNY staff, 7/31/41)
265

Greek assets in the U.S. (FRBNY staff, 8/20/41)

Copy of Amendment of Executive Order No.6560 freezing assets of Norway and

Denmark in the U.S. (The White House, 4/10/40)

List of Executive Orders issued under authority of Section 5b of the Trading with the

Enemy Act (FRB staff [?], 6/26/40)

Purpose of Trading with the Enemy Act (FRB staff [?], 6/21/40)

Interdepartmental Committee on Foreign Funds Control

(FRB staff, 10/31/41, 7/10/41)

Instructions for holders of Philippine currency and Philippine Government and corporate

securities (Philippine Resident Commissioner, 1/14/42)

Foreign funds rulings re: foreign funds control

(Treasury [?], 2/11/42, 2/11/42, 2/11/42)

Foreign funds control measures relating to Japan (FRB staff, 3/6/42, 4/8/41)

Control of enemy property under Trading with the Enemy Act

(FRB staff, 3/6/42)

General Aniline and Film Corporation (FRBNY staff, 1/2/42)

Foreign purchase of Treasury bills (FRB staff, 12/13/41)

Assets of the Cova Company in U.S.

(FRBNY 3/28/42, 11/19/41, 8/29/41, 8/20/41)

Central bank participation in Inter-American meeting on control of Axis funds (FRB staff,

6/30/42, 5/28/42)

Compilation of letters between FRBNY and Bank Nationale Suisse

(FRBNY staff, 4/30/42)

Restrictions on import of U.S. and foreign currency from abroad (FRB and FRBNY staff,

6/19/42, 3/20/42, 3/17/42; Treasury, 6/17/42)

BIS blocked funds in U.S. (FRB staff, 12/22/42, 7/25/40; FRBNY staff, 8/14/40 [with

enclosures from BIS])

Swiss gold transactions (FRB staff, 11/7/41)

Census of American holdings of foreign property (FRB staff, 10/9/42)

Newspaper articles on legal suit involving foreign funds control against Chase Manhattan

Bank (NY Times, 5/9/45; NY Herald Tribune, 5/7/45)

Ban on gold exports to Argentina (FRB staff [?], 9/13/44)

Polish-Rumanian court case involving blocked funds (FRB staff, 5/15/42)

Trading with the Enemy Act (FRBNY staff, 5/6/42)

Letter and legal brief on legal suit involving foreign funds control against FRB

Philadelphia (FRB Philadelphia staff [?], 5/3/44)

Letter and table on U.S. capital position, listing by country foreign assets in the U.S.

(FRB staff, 4/28/44) 

Conference on foreign funds control (FRB Boston, 6/13/45, FRB staff, 6/13/45)

Memo and letters relating to a specific legal suit involving foreign funds control (FRB San

Francisco, 5/9/47; FRB staff, 4/30/47; Department of Justice, 4/25/47)

Letters/memos re: Royal Netherlands decree of 5/24/40 (FRB staff, 5/26/43, 9/9/40, 9/40

[?], 7/10/40; FRBNY, 7/2/40 [including attachments from the State Department

and translation of the decree]; FRB Atlanta, 7/9/40; legal firm Hogan & Hartson,

9/6/40)

Swiss-Portuguese gold transactions (FRB staff, 10/21/41, 9/6/41)

German corporate holdings in the U.S. (FRB staff, 10/5/41)

Letters/memo re: suspicious withdrawal of funds by a possible foreign national (FRB staff,

9/23/41, 9/23/41; FRB Cleveland, 9/20/41)

Sales to Continental Europe for post-war delivery (FRBNY staff, 9/6/41)
266

Request to unblock Yugoslav assets

(FRB staff [?], 3/4/48; Treasury staff [?], 7/20/48)

Suit involving Reichsbank account at FRBNY (FRB staff, 2/9/48).

Vesting order relating to possible interests of Bank of Japan in account of BIS (FRBNY

staff, 2/2/50).

b) Papers on:

Mobilization planning in the field of foreign economic operations

(U.S. Government, Interagency Study Group on Foreign Assets Control,

5/10/49, 4/6/49)

Material relative to discussions with representatives of Federal Reserve Banks (Treasury

and The White House, 6/6/45 - 6/7/45)

Liquidation of blocked business enterprises within the U.S. (Source unknown,

FRB? 8/27/42)

Administration of the wartime financial and property controls of the U.S.

Government (Treasury, 6/1/42)

Foreign funds control (Treasury [?], 12/15/41)

Stenographic report on meeting on foreign funds control held at FRB Cleveland

on 12/1/41

2. Forms & Reports, 1940-44

a) Letters/tables/memos on:

Assets of Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, and Rumania in the U.S.

(Treasury, 4/17/41)

Assets of France, Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia in the U.S.

(Treasury, 9/12/40)

Assets of the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Norway, and Denmark in the U.S.

(Treasury, 7/5/40)

Danish assets in the U.S. (Treasury [?], 6/6/40)

Norwegian assets in the U.S. (Treasury [?], 6/6/40)

3. Interdepartmental Committee proceedings, 1941-42

a) Memos on:

Proceedings of Interdepartmental Committee on Foreign Funds Control (FRB staff,

12/5/41, 11/26/41, 11/19/41, 11/10/41, 10/31/41, 10/31/41, 10/22/41, 10/16/41,

10/9/41, 10/1/41, 9/17/41, 9/3/41, 8/29/41, 8/26/41, 8/18/41, 8/12/41, 8/7/41,

8/6/41, 8/5/41, 7/10/41, 7/8/41)

Investment of Bank of France funds (FRB staff, 8/7/41)

4. Mimeographed letters, 1941-42

a) Papers on:

Foreign funds control in the U.S. (FRB staff, 3/6/42, 9/3/41)

Foreign and International Problems

1. Minutes and Agenda, Mar 1947-Feb 1950

a) Memos on:

Agenda for 5/12/48 meeting of Staff Group on Foreign Interests
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(FRB staff, 5/6/48)

Minutes of 5/12/48 meeting (FRB staff, 6/23/48)

Agenda for 12/3/47 meeting of Staff Group on Foreign Interests

(FRB staff, 12/3/47)

Minutes of 12/3/47 meeting (FRB staff, 1/12/48)

Discussion of recent rulings by Treasury re: turning foreign funds over to the Alien

Property Custodian (FRB staff [?], 2/11/48)

Gold

1. General, Oct 1939-Oct 1947

a) Memos on:

Text of press statement by the Tripartite Commission for the Restitution of Monetary Gold

(State Department, 10/17/47)

Foreign restrictions on private ownership of gold (FRBNY staff, 7/15/47)

Tables on gold and dollar assets of foreign countries

(FRB staff [?], 6/30/45, 5/31/45)

Summary and discussion of article on gold and foreign dollar balances in FRB Chicago’s

April 1945 Review (FRB staff, 5/25/45)

Gold trade of U.S. with Sweden, Switzerland, and Turkey compared with changes in the

gold reserves of those countries since the outbreak of war (FRB staff [?], 4/20/45)

Information requested by Governor Evans on dollar balances, gold, and American

securities held by foreign govts and their citizens in the U.S. (FRB staff [?],

3/22/45)

Foreign acquisition of gold and dollar assets (FRB staff [?], 4/20/44)

Treasury release on Axis gold (FRB staff, 2/26/44)

Letters/press release re: Treasury’s recent declaration on gold purchases (FRBNY staff,

2/25/44, Treasury, 2/23/44, 2/22/44)

Postwar gold holdings and dollar balances of foreign countries

(FRBNY staff, 2/29/43)

Gold items in annual report of the Central Bank of Argentina

(FRB staff, 7/11/41)

The gold problem turns a corner (Charles Whittlesey, University of Pennsylvania, 3/1/41)

New gold scare ? (FRBNY staff, 8/15/40)

Immediate prospects for international financial policy and trade of U.S. in war or peace

(FRB staff, 7/27/40)

Total amount of Allied gold available for shipment to U.S. (FRBNY staff, 6/5/40)

Some observations about the gold situation (Pres. of FRB Dallas, 2/22/40)

2. Movements, general, 1916-54

a) Memos on:

Memos/letters/tables on gold and capital movements for the Presidents’ Conference

(FRBNY staff, 5/6/42, 2/25/42, 9/23/41, 6/5/41)

Foreign conversions of dollars into gold (FRBNY staff, 4/28/42)

Gold and capital inflow into the U.S. (FRB staff, [?], 2/27/39, 2/27/39)

3. Production, 1916-48

a) Paper on gold. In addition to discussing production, discusses the huge inflow of gold into the
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U.S. in the years prior to WWII (Engineering and Mining Journal, 1/3/40)

4. Reserves and holdings, 1928-48

a) Memos on:

Letter/table on gold reserves, foreign exchange, and short-term assets in the U.S., by

country, 1939-48 (FRB Chicago staff, 11/16/48)

Memos/tables on foreign gold holdings/reserves/dollar assets (FRB [?] and FRBNY staff,

11/14/45, 6/13/44, 9/2/43, 9/25/40, 8/23/40, )

Gold reserve requirements of leading central banks (FRB staff[?], 1/15/45)

Gold reserves of central banks and governments

(FRB staff [?], 6/16/41, 8/2/40)

Estimated unreported official gold holdings (FRB staff [?], 12/30/40)

Loans and Investments

1. Foreign Deposits in U.S.

a) Memos on:

Disposition of blocked assets in the U.S. (by Kriz [FRBNY staff], 11/28/47)

Belgium’s dollar assets (FRBNY staff, 4/5/45)

Letter re: foreign investments in the U.S. (FRB staff [?], 1/6/45)

Compulsory concentration of foreign official balances with the FR

(FRBNY staff, 12/9/44)

Control over official funds (FRB staff, 12/9/44)

Excerpt from page 66/113-3 of CCH War Law -- French requisition of U.S. dollar

accounts (French Government, 9/27/44)

Foreign purchases of gold and U.S. Government securities

(FRBNY staff, 4/26/44, 4/16/43)

Foreign assets in the U.S. (FRB staff, 3/9/44, 5/22/43)

Argentine assets in the U.S. in light of recent blocking maneuvers

(FRBNY staff, 11/15/43)

French funds in NY (FRBNY staff, 2/19/43)

Fighting French funds in NY (FRBNY staff, 11/6/42, 10/1/42, 8/7/42)

Argentine dollar deposits in NY (FRBNY staff, 2/11/43, 5/17/41, 5/14/41)

Foreign-owned frozen funds available for investment in U.S. Government securities

(FRBNY staff, 9/23/42)

Netherlands Purchasing Commission (FRBNY staff, 7/24/42, 3/16/42, 5/24/41)

Dutch gold and dollar assets in NY (FRBNY staff, 4/28/42)

Funds held in NY by Polish Government or Bank Polski

(FRBNY staff, 3/30/42)

Danish funds in NY (FRBNY staff, 12/3/41, 11/21/41)

Swiss gold and banking funds in 2nd District (FRBNY staff, 8/21/41)

Greek assets in the U.S. (FRBNY staff, 8/20/41)

Official Czechoslovak balances in this market (FRBNY staff, 8/15/41)

Foreign funds in 2nd District (FRBNY staff, 8/13/41)

Liquidation of dollars by Japan (FRBNY staff, 7/15/41)

Dutch possessions’ assets in 2nd District (FRBNY staff, 6/23/41, 5/10/40)

Transfer of Japanese funds from NY to Brazil (FRBNY staff, 5/5/41)

Foreign official funds in the U.S. (FRB staff [?], 4/19/41)

Foreign deposits in U.S. (FRB staff [?], 4/8/41)
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Foreign central bank funds outside the 2nd District (FRBNY staff, 4/1/41)

Japanese funds in NY (FRBNY staff, 3/26/41)

Revised Commerce estimates of foreign security holdings (FRB staff, 1/8/41)

American investment in Japan and Japanese investments in U.S.

(FRBNY staff, 2/3/41, 9/11/40)

Transfer of dollar funds between Russia and Germany (FRBNY staff, 1/4/41)

Foreign long-term investments in the U.S. (FRB staff [?], 12/5/40)

Japanese dollar balances (FRBNY staff, 11/29/40, 10/19/40)

Attachment of Reichsbank funds in this market (FRBNY staff, 11/15/40)

Greek holdings of gold and American assets (FRBNY staff, 10/26/40)

Czechoslovakian deposits (FRBNY staff, 10/18/40)

Table on foreign direct investments in the U.S. (FRB staff [?], 9/28/40)

Table on foreign investment in the U.S.

(FRB staff [?], 9/27/40, 9/19/40, 9/39, 9/25/39 )

Deposits held by Swiss bank agencies in NY (FRBNY staff, 8/27/40)

Gold and American assets held by Italy and certain Balkan countries

(FRBNY staff, 6/10/40)

Refugee dollar funds’ effect on balance of payments (FRBNY staff, 6/7/40)

Method of reporting Polish deposits in this District (FRBNY staff, 5/28/40)

Commerce revisions of investments of foreigners in the U.S.

(FRB staff, 5/18/40)

Investments by foreign residents in domestic bonds and preferred stock

(FRB staff [?], 5/11/40)

Assets held in this market by the Low Countries (FRBNY staff, 5/10/40)

Foreign holdings of gold, dollar balances, and American investments

(FRBNY staff, 4/19/40)

Status of Scandinavian accounts with the FR Bank (FRBNY staff, 4/9/40)

Foreign transactions in American securities: recent liquidation

(FRBNY staff, 12/12/39)

Large foreign holdings of American corporate shares (FRB staff, 4/25/39)

Swiss investments in the U.S. (FRB staff, 12/6/38)

2. General, 1938-45

a) Memos on:

Dollar bonds of Axis-occupied European countries (FRB staff [?], 6/1/44)

Table on intl capital position of the U.S. at end-1940

(FRB staff [?], 4/28/44, 3/24/41)

Riksbank’s purchases of Treasury bills through Chemical Bank & Trust Co. (FRBNY

staff, 3/6/42)

Riksbank’s purchases of Treasury bills through New York Trust

(FRBNY staff, 2/19/42)

Status of foreign dollar bonds (FRBNY staff, 10/1/40)

Table on international investments involving the U.S. (FRB staff [?], 8/20/40)

International investments between the U.S. and certain foreign countries

(FRBNY staff, 6/17/40)

Dividend payments on foreign-held American stocks (FRB staff, 10/20/39)

Annual report of Foreign Bondholders Protective Council

(FRBNY staff, 8/16/39)

Table on American investment abroad and foreign investment in the U.S. excluding short-
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term balances and direct investment

(FRB staff [?], 4/5/39)

National Advisory Council

1. General, April 1946 - December 1948

a) Memos on:

Memos/letters regarding several small proposed BIS loans to Turkey, France, Italy, where

there is mention of BIS blocked funds in the U.S. (FRB staff, 11/4/47, 10/29/47,

10/8/47, 10/3/47; FRBNY staff, 10/22/47)

Memos/letters re: NAC meetings and U.S. deliberations re: liquidating the BIS (FRB staff,

12/4/47, 3/31/48; NAC Acting Secretary, 12/1/47).

Blocked private foreign assets in the U.S. (FRB staff, 1/14/48, 2/3/48, 3/3/48, 3/9/48;

NAC Chairman, 2/2/48, State Department., 1/19/48)

Eximbank Austrian loan request -- contains small section on German assets in Austria

(National Advisory Council Staff Committee, 7/22/47).

Upcoming 3/4/47 NAC meeting, with agenda item on U.S. Government financial

operations in Germany and Japan (FRB staff, 3/3/47).

Unofficial FRB minutes of NAC meetings, plus memos discussing issues prior to

meetings. References to most or all of the above items.

(FRB staff, 4/22/46, 5/10/46, 6/4/46, 6/25/46, 9/17/47, 11/24/47,

1/6/48, 1/12/48, 1/22/48, 4/21/48, 6/22/48.)

NAC semiannual report for 10/1/47-3/31/48. Section on blocked foreign assets in the

U.S. (NAC report, 7/30/48)

Postwar Planning and Policies

1. Financial Peace Problems, Special International Financial Studies, Currency and Exchange Problems

a) Paper on the treatment of German clearing balances, gold and occupation costs in the peace

settlement (FRB staff, 4/12/44)

2. General, 1940-45

a) Memo on use of blocked assets in postwar settlement (FRB staff, 4/29/42)

b) Papers, article on:

Foreign financial contributions to Germany during the war

(FRBNY staff, 5/45, 8/44)

Gold from Germany (The Financial News, London, 6/9/43)

Reoccupation

1. General, 1943-48

a) Press release: Treasury statement on invasion currency (Treasury, 3/14/45)

U.S.-French Economic Negotiations

1. General, 1946

a) Statistical review of the economic and financial situation of France at the beginning of 1946,

plus supplementary materials. These publications give French public assets, 1939-3/1/46,

and estimates of losses of national wealth due to the war. (French Government, 3/46)
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Gift Collection Records (RG 200)

This Record Group includes gifts of personal papers, historical manuscripts, and other materials donated to

NARA. Although these materials are not official records of the U.S. Government, the National Archives

Act of June 18, 1934, authorized their acceptance as gifts if they related to and illustrated historical

activities of the United States. The Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended

(44 U.S.C., section 2107 (2)), which superseded the 1934 act, authorized the acceptance from private

sources of such gifts that are appropriate for preservation by the Government as evidence of its

organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, and transactions.

Abraham G. Druker/Irving Dwork Papers (OSS Research and Analysis Branch, Jewish DeskWorld War II)

Boxes 1-29 location: 130/75/43/02

General Lucius D. Clay Personal Papers April 1945-May 1949

Boxes 1-15 location: 130/75/45/06

Lt. General Geoffrey Keyes “Personal-Official File,” 1934-1954

Boxes 1-9 location: 130/76/01/04
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